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Posted by speckx 4 hours ago

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results(kagi.com)
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luciana1u 2 hours ago|
the paywall-removal setting is really just Kagi admitting that for most queries the best answer is a link it has to quietly break into for you
treetalker 4 hours ago||
I believe Kagi has been annotating paywalled results with a circled dollar sign for some time.

This new feature completely weeds such results out of every search.

It would be nice to be able to toggle this (1) in the options drop-down menu on the results page (like Verbatim and Personalized modes), as well as (2) inline (with a "!nopaywall" bang or something).

scotty79 4 hours ago||
That should have been an option in Google since the first paywall was put up.
Nextgrid 4 hours ago|
Google even has/had a rule against cloaking (the practice of serving search engines a different version of the page from the one visitors get).
stldtt 4 hours ago||
This started with expertsexchange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182198

but unlike that stack overflow predecessor that attempted to build itself as a paywalled business, newspapers successfully strongarmed Google, at least in the EU, by arguing against Google monopolistic powers so it's unlikely that Google would dare put them in the shitlist.

open-search 2 hours ago||
nice
taintify 4 hours ago||
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DeepLogin 4 hours ago|
I use Brave Search+ DuckDuckGo+ Google Image search and that seems to sastify my search requirements while keeping my payment info private.

I don't think I will ever think of subscribing to Kagi metasearch engine, especially since their paywalled search offerings seem to be inferior to other options.