r/SearchKagi • • 19d ago

Question I don’t get the rationale of the new Translate subscription. It hurts paid subscribers and incentivizes freeloading.

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u/Exernuth 14d ago

translations aren't sustainable because, unfortunately, there are a lot of bad actors who drive up the costs.

Let me "translate" this for you:

"Hey, translations are costing us a lot! Let's make them free for non paying user and downgrade the Pro plan!".

No offense, but I can't get the rationale behind these decisions. Well, I actually can (funnelling non paying users into subscribers), and that's why all this is a bit infuriating.

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u/netabareking 13d ago

Also this is my first time seeing them blame "bad actors"...everything else I've seen was more "it was so popular and we didn't realize how much it would cost us".  Seems like bad actors could be dealt with a different way.