Isn’t this the $10 versus $25 plan? Are you saying you’d feel better if they charged you $9 and turned off quick answers? (Which are totally optional to use.)
But the search itself is worth $10/mo. if you ask me.
I subscribed a year before I bought into AI, and I was very happy with it.
I believe you're funding a free tier more than you're funding AI product research.
It’s very frustrating that “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to “turn it on” for a service I pay for.
Kagi is an AI-oriented company from the start, not an “… and AI!” gimmick. AI-curated search results are believed to eventually replace normal search results.
If I just want a factoid on a website, I might as well have a program crawl and scan for it.
If I want the summary and I don’t bother reading the long version, I might as well have a program crawl and summarise.
If I want specific details in a big document, and I am not familiar with the wording to look for, I might as well prompt.
It’s like complaining about shellfish at a seafood restaurant. :-)
If I want a factoid on a website, I want to see it with my own eyes, not filtered through some non-deterministic shit machine that might tell me the right answer. To each their own but me getting what I want doesn't get in your way at all, so we should both be able to use Kagi the way we want to.
Isn’t this the $10 versus $25 plan?
And it doesn't even have to be that much cheaper. Maybe 15% or so.
That said, a lot of people want it, so I hold no grudge that they do it. It certainly is reasonable use of AI compared to others.