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How many and how much are your subscriptions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Kagi Duo

I understand the concept, free search engines aren't free, but I'm just not there yet enough to pay for a search engine. I don't have ads on my network period, haven't in decades. I also filter heavily through pFsense and other means. So, while I am admittedly still contributing somewhat to a major search engine, at the very least I have still retained most of my data, and search results must be selected with prudence.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For me, it was more the quality of search than privacy concerns. The latter I could mitigate, as you wrote.

But, oh man, the search quality on Kagi is so much better than everywhere else. The ability to just outright block domains in results, chef's kiss.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I'll certainly keep it in the back of my head.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I hear you! I was on the same boat - I had telemetry locked down as much as possible, but I eventually got tired of the arms race and decided to give Kagi a spin.

Took a while to commit but a big selling point was being able to bring my very non-technical wife along for the ride.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're interested, try something like searxng and route it through a VPN or vps.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I do run a Searxng private instance and love it.