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That's what I thought, too, but from the blog post it feels like AI searches will "cost" a variable amount of requests. So maybe the price increase is unrelated to AI, but they market AI because people apparently love that?

Not sure, and same as you: I don't want generative AI and I don't want to pay for it. I wish they made it clear that I won't have to.

Also I don't want to pay for their browser that I don't use. Really I'm interested in paying the true price for my searches (instead of being tracked for ads).