[fauigerzigerk]

>I'd be okay with a paid subscription service if I got privacy and some other things as well

Payment and privacy are a very problematic combination, especially where end-to-end encryption is essentially impossible.

[benoliver999]

Yeah "I'd be OK with a paid subscription" means "I want my searches tied to one account".

You pretty much get to choose one or the other.

[0xcde4c3db]

Also: how many executives, seeing that corpus of data on people who are demonstrably willing to spend money, would pass up the opportunity to extract more money by finding a way to sell it to marketers?