Despite being a free product, free search engines make a lot of money. Kagi’s Why Pay for Search says that, “In 2022 Google generated USD $224.47 Billion dollars from advertisement revenue while processing approximately 8 Billion searches per day. At 365 days per year this amounts to approximately USD $0.07 revenue per search. If an average user searches 5 times per day, assuming a 30 day month this results in Google generating USD $11 revenue per user per month.
I would disagree with your characterization of this discussion as being exactly what is wrong with this community.
Much of the criticism of this “article” is that is appears horribly biased. It reads as weak user testimonial ad copy. The conclusion is illogical and promotes a paid search solution which is antithetical to privacy. This is a community for discussions about privacy not a commercial space.
Your criticisms of the discussion mainly puts forth hyperbolic examples. Would you rather a reddit style echo chamber with no healthy dissent or discussion, just a bunch of reddit style lemmings bots agreeing in unison?
I guess if you are an ad executive you might prefer a scenario where your ai ad bot posts an article promoting your product and everyone laps it up and the discussion is full of “Paid Kaki user checking in, best $10 a month I every spent!!!” comments. I believe this environment is what reddit is transforming itself into right now. Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t become this.
Critical thinking and discussion benefits a community, its a right not a wrong.
I would disagree with your characterization of this discussion as being exactly what is wrong with this community.
Much of the criticism of this “article” is that is appears horribly biased. It reads as weak user testimonial ad copy. The conclusion is illogical and promotes a paid search solution which is antithetical to privacy. This is a community for discussions about privacy not a commercial space.
Your criticisms of the discussion mainly puts forth hyperbolic examples. Would you rather a reddit style echo chamber with no healthy dissent or discussion, just a bunch of reddit style lemmings bots agreeing in unison?
I guess if you are an ad executive you might prefer a scenario where your ai ad bot posts an article promoting your product and everyone laps it up and the discussion is full of “Paid Kaki user checking in, best $10 a month I every spent!!!” comments. I believe this environment is what reddit is transforming itself into right now. Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t become this.
Critical thinking and discussion benefits a community, its a right not a wrong.
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