[manchmalscott]

I'm fine paying for search, but I don't want to use LLMs and therefore I don't want to _pay_ for access to LLMs that I'm not going to use. If Kagi offered a lower cost subscription with zero LLM bullshit then I would happily resubscribe. I'm not holding my breath though, being able to actually find information on the internet is just probably dead forever.

[Marsymars]

That's kind of the nature of any subscription that isn't pay-per-use for every action... you're always going to be paying for various things that you don't use/consume.

[manchmalscott]

YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.

Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.

[saltysalt]

I'm building my own search engine that is human-curated, as I am also uncomfortable relying on AI to filter my search results. It's free, feedback welcomed: https://greppr.org/

[mastermage]

Thats realy cool, and i would be interested in building something like this for myself (for German sources) do you have any directions to point me into for making something like this myself?