Kagi’s model is working well for them. A traditional search engine where AI results are limited and optional, and they actively try to filter away slop, images, clickbait, and other low quality results.

I’ve been paying for 3 months and I’ll never go back. I hope they increase their market share as others ratchet up their enshittification cranks.

Just pay your taxes, dork.

Years later I still haven’t decided who the biggest asshole is in this case, and somehow that is absolutely correct.

Apple: “Siri, search for a big dumb basket for me to put all my eggs into.”

Siri: “Now playing Basket Case by Green Day…”

This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.

Good riddance. Now do Teams.

I want companies to make robots to vacuum for me. I don’t want them to make my own drudgery time more “convenient”.

Nobody: “Now my boss can text me any time of day even when I’m doing housework!”

So disappointing. I just transitioned my personal browsing from Arc to Zen Browser because it was the closest vertical tab experience I could find. Now I hope one of the other browsers will figure out and implement good drawer-based vertical tab UI.

Having some AIs that do this and some not will only muddy the waters of what’s believable. We’ll get gullible people seeing the ridiculous and thinking “Well there’s no watermark so it MUST be true.”

Prologue on iOS does a great job of device syncing my Plex audiobook library. And no subscription requirement for once.