@nicholas @nyanide
>"if you don't want to be the product, then you have to pay for the software" which I appreciate.
Their search engine is really great and coupled with the AI integration in it for page summarizing and quick answers, it sped up some of my workflows a lot.

I've previously used a self-hosted SearxNG instance and got annoyed by garbage results manipulated by SEO. If it even returned some results that is, which it mostly didn't.

In my case it's not even about me not being the product, t's about me receiving a functional product by a relatively small company that gets the job done.