didn't google just do the same thing?
not enough people springing for the ai-addon by itself, so they just force it on everyone instead, at a 'lower-but-still-higher' price.
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I cancelled my Kagi subscription for a similar reason, didn't wanna fund their AI tool development.
Yo my knowledge they just use existing models. But yes, I think it's a good idea to request they specifically don't add to the steaming pile of slop
Have you found a viable alternative? I like how Kagi takes my money instead of showing me ads and lets me filter out domains.
DDG
1) I use several privacy focused search sites:
2) subscribe to an AI generated content blocklist in uBlock Origin:
3) have local filters in uBlock Origin for sites like x, pinterest, reddit, etc:
In uBlock Orign you can make custom filters to block specific websites like so:
reddit.com$document
pinterest.com$document
pinterest.co.uk$document
x.com$document
So will business customers be able to disable the AI “features”?
This is only for non business plans, and the article says that the AI features can be disabled. But who knows what "disabled" actually means. Doing the same price increase for business users would be a much harder sell and would affect a lot more people, but I'm sure it's coming
Hopefully lots of people cancel which makes other companies wary of trying similar.
Double whammy
OpenOffice, folks.
*libreoffice
Just not MS.
Edit: yah, OpenOffice development has stalled out.