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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 carlosjobim »

mrngld wrote: post #76
bluGill wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

There's still valuable info in your local newspaper even if their agenda is the opposite of yours. You just have to read between the lines and phone their bias.

But the biggest stories in your local community will of course be completely hushed many times.

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

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Post by oriettaxx »

john_strinlai wrote: post #104
no-name-here wrote: post #99

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I don't see it offhand in the newsguidelines page nor the submit page? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/submit Edit: It's in the newsfaq page https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html per the replies

it's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. in other words, its not ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that do not have workarounds.

uh, I did not know: what I saw, so far, is that paywalled submission appears and then some volunteer would reply with a workaround... (many thanks to them)

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

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Post by dspillett »

sssilver wrote: post #25

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.

There are quite a few Luddites like myself that don't trust AI summaries and would rather just have the relevant links, so for us this would be useful. Though TBH I'd rather just stick with the paywalled articles being highlighted as such so I can choose on-the-fly. Perhaps the block option is something I'll turn on when almost all the results are paywalled and I want to see if there is a better option before going to one of them.

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

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Post by john_strinlai »

oriettaxx wrote: post #132
john_strinlai wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. in other words, its not ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that do not have workarounds.

uh, I did not know: what I saw, so far, is that paywalled submission appears and then some volunteer would reply with a workaround... (many thanks to them)

>what I saw, so far, is that paywalled submission appears and then some volunteer would reply with a workaround.

right. there is no requirement that the submitter provides the workaround themselves.

the requirement is that a workaround exists. sometimes nice commenters will provide the workaround, but again, the only requirement is that it is possible to workaround the paywall.

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

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Post by oriettaxx »

john_strinlai wrote: post #134
oriettaxx wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uh, I did not know: what I saw, so far, is that paywalled submission appears and then some volunteer would reply with a workaround... (many thanks to them)

> what I saw, so far, is that paywalled submission appears and then some volunteer would reply with a workaround. right. there is no requirement that the submitter provides the workaround themselves. the requirement is that a workaround exists . sometimes nice commenters will provide the workaround, but again, the only requirement is that it is possible to workaround the paywall.

ah, great.

Super clear now, thank you.

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

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Post by kenanfyi »

I use the Bangs feature to open paywalled links with archive.is with !a. When I write !a before the link in the address bar, it redirects to the archive for that particular page. Most of the time it is already in archive.is.

Bang settings:

URL Template: https://archive.is/newest/%s

Bang shortcut: whatever letter you want.

I'm sure a basic browser extension can be developed for that specific action too, but it does not bother me to write !a every now and then.

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

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Post by Zambyte »

CoffeeOnWrite wrote: post #118
delis-thumbs-7e wrote: post #59

I think this is amazing. Love Kagi. I’m happy to pay for a good search. Nobody speaks about their AI Assistant, but it is really good. They somehow harnessed it so that it mainly searches info first and sticks to the verifiable data. I prefer it to Claude or any other, because it actually answers the question I need without fluff or “Great question! Here’s some plausible nonsense you can trip over instead of doing ac…

My household is hooked on the AI Assistant. It’s heartwarming to be able to buy consumer software that just works. If only Kagi had a Shopping feature, then it would be a complete solution for us.

> If only Kagi had a Shopping feature, then it would be a complete solution for us.

Why?

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

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Post by CoastalCoder »

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 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!

Okay, new topic then. Have you heard of InstaPot? ;)

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

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Post by gherkinnn »

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…

Longstanding user and it is great!

It is one of the very, very few digital services that hasn't fucked me over within a year.

I will celebrate as if I had discovered Kagi yesterday.

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