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I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car
  • I had a 2023 Elantra, and iirc it had these features for $30 a year after my subscription ended.

    These prices are way higher. Seems like every company agreed that subscription = $10(ish) a month, regardless of the actual cost the features justify.

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    Instagram's monthly subscription
  • It's weird in that most users would value it at $3.99 a month, but the average user also scrolls for several hours a month, with each one of those hours packed with ads.

    This equates to way more than $4 in revenue a month.

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    Anon on credit scores
  • Visa takes a cut from transaction, only a portion of that goes to the bank. I get 2.5% cash back on my transactions, but Visa only charges a 2.24% transaction fee. There must be more to cash back than the transaction fee.

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    Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • I looked it up*

    https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#kagisearch

    It's $.0125, so 1.25 cents not double digits like I thought. They also average 27 searches per day per user. So an average of 821.25 searches per user per month, meaning a cost of $10.27 per month.

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    Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • It's probably as good as we are going to get.

    The best options would be an open source, donation supported search engine, but the money required to host/develop that is immense.

    We are all freeloading off of Lemmy right now, unless you are donating to the people who are running the servers. The cost to run a search engine is much higher though -- kagi pays (iirc) double digit cents for each search, even before development costs, with the average user doing 700 searches a month. The costs are way higher.

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    Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • It's also privately owned by one guy, so it doesn't have to submit to investor pressure.

    Steam, for example, is basically a monopoly for PC game sales, but hasn't enshittified because it is privately owned.

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