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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by MichaelZuo on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:41AM (#28314195)
I’m fairly sure a lot of folks would sign up at even $30/month, if any product managers are reading this.
Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by Joeri on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:07PM (#28316751)
Sort of reminds me how I can’t get a digital newspaper without ads, regardless of what I’m willing to pay, or how every cable tv provider in my region has unskippable ads in on demand and (soon) recorded tv programs, regardless of what I pay. The content industries are very much stuck in a “content must be financed through advertising” mindset, and google seems trapped with them. I can easily imagine a paid privacy-first google premium service that strips out google ads across the internet, and I would pay for it, but apparently google’s imagination is more limited. So now I just use ad blockers.
Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by nathancahill on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#28315273)
Give me back the advanced search operators and I'm in for 3 figures/month.
Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by irjustin on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:50AM (#28314269)
This would be an interesting product especially to those who are relatively price insensitive such as companies.

One of the perks of working for us is a google no-ads subscription! could work?

Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by tialaramex on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:11AM (#28314446)
I suspect that what people want with "No data collected" is too nebulous to be actionable, at $30/ month or any price. Youtube Premium is something actionable, "I don't want adverts". OK then, no adverts, done for the price.

If you try to take it literally it blows up immediately. Who aren't we collecting data about? We can't very well have data like login credentials for a user we don't collect data about, so...

Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by misiti3780 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:36AM (#28314739)
I would pay a lot more than 30