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I live in a country which uses a language I don't speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).

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[–] metaltoilet@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that it's a lot of work but I'm sorry, a starting plan of $5 per month is WAY to much. I'll just use searxng.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, if that makes sense for you go for it. To me, 60$ a year is a single pizza delivery, so it seems foolish for me to worry too much about it when it's something I need consistent use of throughout the day, every day. I find a good search engine way more essential than a tv streaming service, so it really is a no brainer for me.

Edit: I also pay fastmail to host my email for me too, so I'm clearly not against paid-for services :)

[–] metaltoilet@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

True. I'm definitely not their target audience. SearXNG is great bc if configured right I get great results that aren't too cluttered. I'd rather have it hosted by someone I can trust (a friend of a friend runs the instance I use) and not have to worry about it. I'm not against payed services but I do hate subscriptions except for when they're truly necessary.