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I subscribed to the $5 plan last night for that very reason, and then immediately unsubscribed because it was the most user-hostile search engine I've ever used. Limit of 300 searches per month, with the 300 AI interactions that I'll never use being a separate category. There's also a cap of 1000 sites in the personalized results. Worst all all though the theme made my eyes bleed and every time I refreshed the page trying to get it to apply the custom CSS it ran up my 300 searches. Oh and also they only show you a maximum of two pages of results FFS. Bloody hell the issues are endless.
I just wanted the ability to uprank good sites, and downrank or block a handful. Being able to brand domains as trusted is the best solution I can think of to AI polluting search results.
DuckDuckGo allows me to block 5 sites and sync that between browsers but not uprank or downrank them.
Brave allows me to uprank and block, but not downrank or sync between devices. And it doesn't let me uprank the au TLD (which is far more restrictive than com or org). Also after upranking anime-planet.com and searching for "The Apothecary Diaries" it didn't show up in the results at all unless I appended "site:anime-planet.com".
For me the dealbreaker was they don't care user requests (they have a platform kagifeedback.org for listenining users, just listening not caring!) and they don't do any real improvements for search quality
here is a good critisizm https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/doubting-your-favorite-web-search-engine/
yeah what if I just want "Search Engine"
For me the specific dealbreaker is the price. Specifically because it's not the price of a artisanal search engine, it's the price of an AI chatbot (both in terms of the dollar value and what they're spending it on).
And now, to read that site's article on javascript and see if I need to rethink whether disabling Wasm and WebGL by default is enough (Edit: That article is just a list of vulnerabilities and a guide on how to disable javascript).