> “trying to have a business model that does not put more ads down your throat”
Twitter isn’t really trying to do that. It’s just something the owner likes to claim, but what he’s actually done is the opposite:
- Hired a CEO from the ad world
- Increased personal data collection (with updated Terms of Service to reflect that)
- Limited tweet access without login (those views would be harder to target with ads)
As a Tesla customer I’m fed up with this person’s endless lies. Seems like you got a taste of it with your Twitter subscription too.
Are you on Mastodon or on the fediverse btw? Any plan for Kagi to have an account there? (not really required, I don’t think that companies should necessarly be on social networks, that’s mostly a waste of time)
Discussion started here : https://mamot.fr/@ploum/111028702144600436
For example Kagi uses Google and even hosts on GCP - I think Google's technology and people are great, it is just the business model that is rotten and contibutes to the deterioration of the web.
And at least Discord and Twitter are trying to have a business model that does not put more ads down your throat (although admittedly I did cancel my Twitter subscription as unexplainably they still showed ads even when subscribing - you can't sit on two chairs).