I feel the same about pricing; $5/mo is about what I’d expect to pay. I’ve been trying it at the current rate though to see how it goes. A fantastic thing they do is tell you how much you’re actually costing them. My billing page says:
Month Searches Cost
Jun 2022 875 $10.94
Jul 2022 773 $9.66
Aug 2022 842 $10.52
Sep 2022 10 $0.12
Your total payments: $30.00
Your total usage: $31.25
Your payments to usage balance: -$1.25 [Tip the difference]
made me curious how many search queries I'm doing: averaging 2000/month:
sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default*/places.sqlite "select strftime('%Y/%m', last_visit_date/1000000, 'unixepoch') as yearmonth, substr(p.url,9,14) as search_backend,count(1) as hits from moz_places p where (p.url like 'https://duckduckgo%' or p.url like 'https://www.google.%/search%' or p.url like 'https://www.qwant%') group by search_backend,yearmonth order by yearmonth asc,hits desc;"
add any search engine you use with another 'p.url like'
This is fantastic, and I hope it can be a sustainable practice whether it's them or other larger companies. Transparency is positive when they're the little guy with a nerd audience, but most companies depend on information asymmetry to mess with our sense of value.
