It was never for you, the user. Like any advertising company, DuckDuckGo wants to reduce the cost of predicting what products its user will buy, which, at this point, means harvesting your thoughts and asking an AI model what you will buy, even if you've already left.

TAKE MY SHIT JOB IF YOU WANT JUST DON'T MAKE EVERYTHING ELSE WORSE AS WELLL

That rate of profit do be declining. I forget what pod was talking about it, but they were saying that tech execs think this will be what returns them to the good old days of high profits.

How do you make sure that results actually appear? I'll be using a public instance with certain engines, and then those engines break and I either have to switch instances or engines.

Find a random data centre, break in, and start hitting servers with a hammer. Sooner or later you're bound to knock out an ai one.

please demonstrate a case where this has been useful to you

I did some digging and it seems that Kagi does have AI features, however their policy is that AI should always be opt-in every single time; only activated when you choose. If you want to read the techbro blog, it's explained a bit more here: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search

Probably best to pay monthly instead of yearly in case they do something you don't like :yea: