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dan,

Shit no! You know what you can’t change if/when they inevitably leak your data? Your fucking hand.

dan,

No.

If you’re alive then you’re totally be within your rights to choose who to voluntarily help or donate something to. Don’t like the look of that homeless guy for whatever reason? Don’t give them money. You can be as racist or misogynistic or otherwise generally cunty as you like, and as long as it’s your personal money/time/organs and you keep quiet about your selection criteria you’re unlikely to have a problem.

However once you’re dead, if you want your dickish restrictions honoured then you have to write them down somewhere. And any organisation set up to manage organ donations that agrees to facilitate such restrictions is likely to find themselves on the pointy end of a discrimination lawsuit at some point.

dan,

Wow. I don’t mind paying for stuff if it’s good. But seriously $5/month seems pretty expensive, and you only get 300 searches. $25 for unlimited searches, which seems like an insane amount of money.

dan,

I mean yes I agree with all your points. But I stand by the assertion that it’s too expensive. I could handle $5/month, perhaps, but 300 searches is waaaay too few. That’s 10 per day. I did 10 searches this morning before I got out of bed.

For unlimited searches it’s twice the cost of a streaming service. Yet it has negligible bandwidth costs, and significantly less storage cost, probably less development cost. Sure a small user base too, but at that price they’re really going to struggle to grow it!

It’s really just too expensive.

dan,

1000 is more reasonable but it’s still only 33 per day. I’ve done 52 searches today. $10 is still way too much.

How much better would a search engine have to be to make it worth the cost of a streaming service? For me, quite a lot…

But yeah I don’t mean to say your choice to pay for it isn’t valid. As you say, to each their own.

dan,

Problem is, 300 searches is 10 per day. I’ve done 52 today. To cover that I’d be paying $25 per month.

I you could have Spotify and Netflix for that.

If I’d paid their $5 rate and done 52 searches every day they’d have billed me $63 in overage charges.

Their pricing model seems insane to me.

dan,

Oh really? That's a shame. Do you have a better alternative?

dan,

Ah that's disappointing, I've been a pretty happy (occasional) user for years. Enshittification hits everything eventually :(

dan,

I like gandi.net. Their UI is pretty inoffensive.

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