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> I want to pay for a quality product. I do not want to self-host or manage my own index.

Why? ain't very hard and for a small site, it is very fast too...

I used Lucene in the past and had zero complaints

> Will replies from my Duck Addresses hide my forwarding address?

> The message will be sent from your Duck Address. Since DuckDuckGo doesn't create the message itself, we can't guarantee that it will not include your forwarding address or other identifiers.

matrix, web, irc, mainly... getting away from email, as fast as I can (I wish websites would stop requiring email for signup)

looks very different then everything else that's for sure (and I don't like it)

> The most interesting thing happening in online advertising today is the pitch made by the video or podcast creator that is embedded in the content.

Harder to block, so I manually skip it...

If the ads weren't so bad in Android apps, I would think that maybe Google is trying to destroy the web with ads...

That doesn't make sense for Youtube videos? Unless Alphabet doesn't trust itself?

Seems like a fair price, since it is open source and anyone could restart the service.... I will take DOGE.