> Ads will give users the option to use our independent search engine with ads that don’t track them, or to sign up for ad-free paid search
Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is? Or do you expect software companies to work for free? (Presumably not the companies you work for).
> A lot of angry comments in here, but the post says there's an ad-free paid version,
People in the comments here who have expectations that products be free, but also not include ads, are a continual problem with the discourse around this stuff. It's quite tiring and repetitive. Brave is even giving you the option to opt out of ads by paying a very reasonable $3/mo. I'm not sure what else you could ask for -- ads that don't surveil you, and the option to pay a reasonable amount to opt out of them.
Can you expand on this? According to the article the ads are privacy-preserving but I'm open to hearing otherwise. There's not a lot of detail in the article.
My question to somebody who understands this more than me, by collecting query, country, device type, is that enough info to identify users?
Doesn't Brave automatically get User Agent strings, too?
Rather, I think you should have to prove that sending your search data OR having your credentials tied to your credit card are privacy preserving.
The burden of proof is on Brave. Not skeptical or cautious users.
Collecting search queries alone is enough to identify users. see: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html
3$/month seems decent to me if search results are improved over google. The 10$/month that kagi ask me for are a bit harder to swallow. Not in itself but additionned to all the other 10ish bucks services I am already subscribed to (streaming, backup, etc). There is simply a limit/month I am willing to spend on the whole package and if I spend say n$/month on a search engine per user I will unsubscribe to other services of the same cost. And this is something I may have to negociate with my partner.
The good thing is it is easier to move from and to a paying search engine than say, an instant messaging service.
You can just say there’s a 0% chance you’d pay $1 a month and that you’d always have an excuse for why this option isn’t good enough for your high standards.
What is the use of paying a service if the search engine results are so crap you will use something else in the end?
From everything you said since, it sounds like you had no intention of giving it a try.
You might think that, yes.
Why is the flat fee “funny”? Netflix, Spotify, NYT, etc. all charge the flat fee. In fact I’m having a hard time thinking of any non-flat-fee consumer digital products.
I wouldn’t hold my breath lol.