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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Is asking for money for your work begging? That's interesting take.

You're right, but I'd personally be okay with the paywalled article search results not showing up, since they are ads masquerading as usable search results. If the publisher wants me to subscribe (and many do publish content worth paying for), they can reach me via normal means, versus corrupting my search results.

Is the idea that you strongly prefer seeing ads instead of paywalls?

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Yeah, I don’t get it. Do people want actual journalism to go out of business?

Didn't journalism go out of business decades ago and now not even pretends to be journalism anymore? I feel it has gotten so bad that most younger people alive today do not even realize what journalism is supposed to be: only report the facts, never add your own opinion to the facts, if there is more than one side, ask each side and report what each side has to say without omitting or adding anything. These are just…

> Didn't journalism go out of business decades ago and now not even pretends to be journalism anymore?

So Daily Mail, Bloomberg, CNBC, BBC, CNN, ABC News, New York Times, FOX and many others all went out of business decades ago?

That is breaking news to me.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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This is the kind of feature that would potentially make me switch, but I feel like at this point AI has disrupted web search for me in such a fundamental way that I rarely use a search engine nowadays.

Just be careful with nuance. Someone close to me asks Gemini absolutely everything because they like how it gives you a straight answer, but real life doesn't always work that way. Context is often missing (besides just being wrong at times).

Search engines shouldn't be replaced by AI but they unfortunately are and it result sucks to see.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?

That's why it's a choice. If you weren't going to sign up to a site then it's just a pure degradation of experience to see links you can't use.

I guess the idea is that such people strongly prefer seeing ads instead of a paywall?

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you'll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?

Kagi specifically rocks because it lets you downrank those sites.

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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If they had a "here is what I'm currently subscribed to" that might be valuable. Everybody should subscribe to the local news paper - to get local news. Things that matter to them that they won't hear about. (Odds are you the reader do not live in the same city as me and so have no interest in who is on my local school board - but I'm trying to figure out who to vote for and need more information than I can find). Ho…

I'd be onboard with supporting a local newspaper -- if they hadn't gone all-in with aligning themselves to a particular political tribe. They're part of the problem Ground News makes obvious to a hilarious degree, where if something happens that doesn't fit the narrative you just will never see it if you only look at their platform. Given that not everyone has a reputable local newspaper I don't know that saying "eve…

should is the key here. The lack of something to support is reason to not pay. Like you, I lack a good local newspaper. There is the nearby city, but they don't cover the important local news well.

Still I'm on the lookout for if someone ever does start covering local news. I don't need national news, even though that is what is cheap easy to get me. (because I get it from to many other places)

Re: Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

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omg, great really!!! When will this be available into HN, too ?

>When will this be available into HN, too ?

hn already disallows paywalled links, unless there is an easy/low-effort bypass (noscript, archive link, gift link, etc.).

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