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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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Post by jjice »

taintify wrote: post #82
pkilgore wrote: post #6

I love Kagi but will probably be selective or ignore this one. Sometimes, I like to know what's out there, and I don't have a problem with paying for good content.

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What's trash about it? Giving no explanation does not contribute to a conversation.

I also don't care if people have original ideas if they take an existing idea and do it better, which is what I appreciate about Kagi at the moment. I don't want anything interesting or novel. I want search that doesn't berate me with ads or AI overviews if I don't ask for them.

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

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Post by sph »

frereubu wrote: post #96

The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" rather than about the content of the blog. And I'm a happy Kagi subscriber! I get that this is an option, but what it really shows to me is how broken the model for journalism is. In my view you almost always only get good-quality journalism if you pay for it. (Somehow - e.g. the BBC is p…

A good product that is not solely focused on rent seeking these days is worth celebrating.

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

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Post by imzadi »

demibabs wrote: post #16
SamBam wrote: post #5

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?

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

I'd be more than happy to pay for the day's paper when I want to read it, assuming it is just that, I pay for a particular day's paper and I get access to the whole paper without having to subscribe, register, or give up my personal information. If I could buy a paper online the same way I could in a 7-11, I absolutely would.

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

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Post by tomhp »

clickety_clack wrote: post #117

I wish Kagi had existed years ago. I just saw someone talking about the Google SEO-laden experience when troubleshooting coding errors and realized it’s a pain I haven’t felt in a long time. It’s telling that Google never made a “remove this site from results” option. Their incentives weren’t set up to provide the best user experience.

Even worse, their programmable search used to allow this, but the feature was removed this year.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

ymolodtsov wrote: post #107
frereubu wrote: post #96

The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" rather than about the content of the blog. And I'm a happy Kagi subscriber! I get that this is an option, but what it really shows to me is how broken the model for journalism is. In my view you almost always only get good-quality journalism if you pay for it. (Somehow - e.g. the BBC is p…

The problem with micropayments isn't the tech really, it's that only the users want them but not any publisher. Which is completely reasonable.

Publishers want them and many have tried. It is the other way around, people don't want to make micro payments. Some say they do, but the evidence proves they're wrong.

Edit: Typo

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

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Post by rafram »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #120
rafram wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By this logic, listings for physical products shouldn't show in search results either, because they're just ads for something you have to pay for. You aren't entitled to others' work for free, and sometimes the most relevant result for your search is something paid. This is a particularly tone-deaf line of reasoning on Hacker News, IMO, because the tech industry is (a) so, so much better paid than journalism, for wor…

Physical products are different because potential buyers are afforded a bevy of free, easily accessible ways to evaluate the product prior to purchase. I have no way to throughly evaluate the quality of a blog that cuts off everything but the first sixth of its posts or a news site that stonewalls me after viewing an article or two. I subscribe to multiple news sites and programming blogs and none of them resort to s…

Most newspapers/magazines have extremely generous intro offers. NYT offers $4/month! WSJ offers $8/month! You can get a great literary magazine like n+1 with physical issues for $3! These are extremely good deals.

I mean, plenty of vibe-coded Show HN projects want more than that for something built in a weekend with close to zero ongoing costs.

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

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Post by stronglikedan »

tempest_ wrote: post #3

I've been enjoying Kagi for the last couple years. Even as LLMs slurp up most of the internet and replace search I think Kagi is still useful. Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account and the ability to filter out stuff like that is useful.

> Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account

I don't understand why this is a barrier considering their accounts aren't invasive at all since you can use a temporary email account to sign up, and then you never have to do anything via email after that.

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

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Post by ipsod »

watutalkinbout wrote: post #51
tempest_ wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe for you. I get a nice > Log in to use old Reddit > To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.

You in the UK?

I get the same, seemingly randomly, from US.

No more, since I installed the "always old reddit" plugin in firefox.

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