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If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/

www.kagi.comKagi Search - A Premium Search EngineBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
Alex Hall

@fastfinge I did this a few months ago and have been very happy. I pay $5 per month and have yet to run out of searches, even running it on my computer and phone.

@alexhall I did the $25 a month plan because I was previously paying for Chat GPT, so why not cancel that and have everything on one bill. Plus Kagi gives GPT4o, as well as a ton of other models for when OpenAI starts censoring too hard.

@fastfinge That makes sense. I use the free ChatGPT site, mostly for the odd coding problem. I haven't yet found a use case in my life that would make it worth paying for.

@alexhall I use it for pulling data out of graphs or CSV files and answering questions about it. At least on Windows, there's still no good sonification tools for random online graphs. But AI does good enough if you just give it an image. And when it goes wrong, at least for graphs, it's usually completely obvious.