Kagi 让你一键屏蔽付费墙:搜索结果该不该出现"你打不开的内容"? — HN 讨论摘要
原文概要
8 月 21 日,付费搜索引擎 Kagi 更新 changelog,宣布在搜索设置里新增一项”排除付费墙网站”(Exclude paywalled websites)的功能。这条更新藏在一批改进中间——Kagi Search 重做了股票小部件,Kagi Assistant 支持富文本渲染、跨线程搜索、临时线程留存 24h/7/30 天可选——但真正引爆 HN 的,是这一条看似不起眼的设置。
Kagi 的定位是”不靠广告赚钱”的订阅制搜索引擎,用户直接付费换取干净、无追踪的结果。现在,同一批付费用户可以把付费墙文章从结果里整个抹掉:凡是点进去需要订阅才能读的链接,直接不再出现。设置页只有一张开关截图,评论区却吵了 1232 分、380 多条。
问题从”这个功能好不好用”迅速滑向一个老生常谈却无解的难题:如果所有人都把付费墙屏蔽了,那雇佣记者的新闻网站靠什么活?这场讨论几乎没有中间地带——一边叫好,一边骂科技行业”又要内容又要免费”。
讨论焦点
“杀手级功能”:终于不用点开打不开的链接
pelagicAustral 第一个叫好,还顺便给 Kagi 提了个需求:
“Killer feature. It would be awesome to have some plugin or userscript to auto-swap the e-begging scammy link for an Archive link instead.” — pelagicAustral
(杀手级功能。要是能有个插件或用户脚本,把这些”讨饭式”链接自动换成 Archive 存档链接就更好了。)
roblh 用一句话总结了自己长期用 Kagi 的体验:
“Me too. The longer I use it, the more I like it. Initially I found myself going back to google fairly often, but unless I’m specifically trying to find a product for sale in my region, Kagi is almost always better now. Maybe Kagi got better, or google got worse, or probably both.” — roblh
(我也是。用得越久越喜欢。一开始我还经常切回 Google,现在除非是找本地有售的商品,Kagi 几乎总是更好。也许 Kagi 变好了,或者 Google 变差了,或者两者兼有。)
“付费墙结果,不过是伪装成可用结果的广告”
ImPostingOnHN 提出了支持这个功能的最核心论点——搜索结果不该为你看不到的内容背书:
“You’re right, but I’d personally be okay with the paywalled article search results not showing up, since they are ads masquerading as usable search results. If the publisher wants me to subscribe (and many do publish content worth paying for), they can reach me via normal means, versus corrupting my search results.” — ImPostingOnHN
(你说得对,但我个人完全接受付费墙文章从搜索结果里消失——它们不过是伪装成可用结果的广告。如果发布方想让我订阅——确实有很多内容值得付费——可以用正常方式来找我,而不是污染我的搜索结果。)
cosmic_cheese 补充了临场体验:搜索时他根本不想掏信用卡,遇到付费墙就直接返回。
“I don’t mind paying when the value is clear and I feel like my time has been respected, and paywalled link showing up in search violates the second of those two. In most of the circumstances when those show up in my search I’m looking for information for immediate use and I am not going whip out a credit card. If I run into a paywall, I’m immediately hitting the back button and moving on to the next result, so it’s better if they just never show up in search at all.” — cosmic_cheese
(价值清楚、时间被尊重时,我不介意付钱;而付费墙链接出现在搜索结果里,恰恰违背了第二点。大多数情况下我在搜索是急着要用信息,绝不会当场掏信用卡。遇到付费墙我立刻按返回键去看下一条,所以最好的结果是它们压根别出现。)
Nextgrid 指出了更深层的不公平——付费墙文章按全文参与排名,读者却只能看到标题:
“The problem with paywalled news articles is that the ranking is done on the full article content, yet I am not allowed to see it. This often outranks the results I am allowed to see. Product pages don’t have this problem.” — Nextgrid
(付费墙新闻的问题在于,排名是按全文内容算的,可我看不到全文。结果就是它常常把我能看到的内容挤下去。商品页面就没这个问题。)
反方:你没资格白拿别人的劳动
rafram 是全场最激烈的反对者,直接点破了 HN 上的身份悖论:
“You aren’t entitled to others’ work for free, and sometimes the most relevant result for your search is something paid. This is a particularly tone-deaf line of reasoning on Hacker News, IMO, because the tech industry is (a) so, so much better paid than journalism, for work that is easier, and (b) largely responsible for the death of journalism as a sustainable business.” — rafram
(你没资格白拿别人的劳动,有时候与你的搜索最相关的结果就是要付费的。在 HN 上说这话尤其刺耳:科技行业比新闻业赚钱多得多、干的活却更容易,而且恰恰是科技行业让新闻业失去了可持续的商业模式。)
面对”订阅太贵”的说法,rafram 甩出了一组数字:
“Most newspapers/magazines have extremely generous intro offers. NYT offers $4/month! WSJ offers $8/month! You can get a great literary magazine like n+1 with physical issues for $3! These are extremely good deals. I mean, plenty of vibe-coded Show HN projects want more than that for something built in a weekend with close to zero ongoing costs.” — rafram
(大多数报纸杂志的入门价都很大方:NYT 一个月 4 美元!WSJ 一个月 8 美元!像 n+1 这样的文学杂志,实体刊一年才 3 美元!这些都是超值优惠。反观不少 vibe-coded 的 Show HN 项目,周末写完、几乎零运营成本,要价却比这还高。)
SamBam 则从结果反推——屏蔽付费墙之后,剩下的是什么:
“Hmmm, so if you are looking for some news item, you’ll only find AI-written clickbait articles covered in pop-up ads, rather than any news sites that employ journalists?” — SamBam
(唔,那以后你要搜个新闻,是不是只能搜到 AI 写的、满屏弹窗广告的标题党文章,而不是任何雇佣记者的新闻网站了?)
订阅疲劳:一个月只读三篇,凭什么订全年
反对”免费”的人很多,但真正反对”订阅”的人更多。Shank 自报家门是前 Google Contributor 用户——一个已经死掉的老牌”按篇付费”实验:
“Former Google Contributor user reporting in! I absolutely do not want normal journalism going out of business, but I’m not going to subscribe to Bloomberg or FT or any of those sites on a recurring basis for one article. I love the idea of paying a non-subscription for one thing, occasionally, though!” — Shank
(前 Google Contributor 用户报到!我绝不想看正常新闻业死掉,但我不会为了读一篇文章就订阅 Bloomberg 或 FT 这类网站。不过,我真心喜欢”不订阅、偶尔为某一篇付费”这种形式!)
Nextgrid 把问题拆成了两个字:
“The ‘/month’ is the problem - I just don’t read the same paper often enough to justify a recurring subscription even at the intro price, let alone the full price it’ll eventually transition to. I would love it if I could be able to pay once in one-click just like if I was purchasing a physical paper.” — Nextgrid
(”每月”两个字就是问题所在——我不会经常读同一份报纸,即便按入门价,也不值得一个长期订阅,更别说它之后会涨到原价。我希望能像买一份实体报纸那样,一键单次付费。)
theshrike79 用 Netflix 打了个比方,还顺手否定了”微支付是技术难题”:
“I’m interested in maybe 3 articles a month. If I were to pay for them it’s like paying for Netflix and watching a movie a month. Or subscribing to a dead-tree newspaper and only reading the comics. I do get that micropayments are hard, but it’s not a technical issue - it never has been. It’s all about credit card costs and legalese.” — theshrike79
(我一个月大概只对 3 篇文章感兴趣。为它们付钱,就像订了 Netflix 一个月却只看一部电影,或者订了一份纸质报纸只读漫画版。我知道微支付很难,但那从来不是技术问题——从来不是。真正的问题是信用卡手续费和法律条款。)
hootz 提供了另一种付费逻辑——为”增量”付费,而不是为”基础内容”付费:
“Paywalling all content sucks, it just makes me leave the website. I pay for a news website from my country that gives me extra cool stuff like opinion articles and cultural highlights from my city, not because they paywall the basic news.” — hootz
(把全部内容都锁进付费墙很糟糕,只会让我离开网站。我为自己国家的新闻网站付费,是因为它有额外的好东西——评论文章、我所在城市的文化精选——而不是因为它把基础新闻也锁起来。)
信息为什么该免费:互联网教的
mionhe 试图跳出来看整个死结——这不是立场问题,是历史惯性问题:
“Most people are uninterested in paying for those services, in part because the internet has trained them that information is free and in part because of fairly extreme polarization in opinions that seems to be everywhere. Arguing that people should pay for the information they consume now is well and good, but that information was something the news companies were giving away for free not that many years ago, reinforcing the idea that information should be free. If there going to make money long term, they’re going to have to find a new way to monetize. People are actively blocking the ads and don’t want to pay for yet another subscription to content they don’t access that often.” — mionhe
(我认为这段简短的对话很好地说明了问题。大多数人不愿为这些服务付费,一半因为互联网早就教会他们”信息是免费的”,一半因为无处不在的极端观点对立。现在劝人”该为消费的信息付钱”说得轻巧,可就在几年前,这些内容还是新闻公司白送的,这反过来强化了”信息应免费”的信念。要长期赚钱,他们必须找到新的变现方式——人们在主动拦截广告,也不愿再为不常看的内容多订一份订阅。)
被问到”你宁愿看广告也不看付费墙吗”时,ohyoutravel 的回答代表了不少人的真实账本:
“I prefer ads because pihole blocks them. Paywalls block me, and then I have to reload and ninja enter reader mode, or if I’m reading inclined, find an archive link.” — ohyoutravel
(我宁愿看广告,因为 Pi-hole 能拦掉它们;付费墙拦的是我自己,我还得刷新、偷偷进阅读模式,或者运气好能找到存档链接。)
典型观点一览
| 立场 | 用户 | 一句话 |
|---|---|---|
| 叫好派 | pelagicAustral | 杀手级功能,最好再加个自动换 Archive 链接的插件 |
| 广告替代论 | ImPostingOnHN | 付费墙结果就是伪装成可用结果的广告 |
| 排名批评 | Nextgrid | 全文参与排序却不让你看全文,是种信息欺骗 |
| 反方 | rafram | 你没资格白拿别人的劳动,最相关的结果有时就是要钱的 |
| 媒体质量质疑 | SamBam | 屏蔽付费墙之后,剩下的只有 AI 标题党 |
| 单篇付费派 | Shank | 不拒绝付钱,只是拒绝为了一篇订 Bloomberg |
| 微支付派 | theshrike79 | 一个月三篇就该花三篇的钱,微支付难在手续费不在技术 |
| 免费教育派 | mionhe | 互联网早已教会大家”信息是免费的” |
| 广告可行派 | ohyoutravel | 广告能拦,付费墙拦不了,所以我选广告 |
| 增量付费派 | hootz | 我为好内容付费,不为基础新闻的围墙付费 |
总体情绪
这场讨论的双方其实不是”支持 Kagi”和”反对 Kagi”——几乎没人反对这个功能本身。真正的分界线是”付费墙该不该存在”:一边把它当广告一样过滤掉,另一边质问科技行业凭什么要内容又不要账单。rafram 那句”科技行业让新闻业失去了可持续商业模式”是整个评论区最扎心的一击,也基本没人能正面回应。
夹在中间的,是一群愿意为内容付钱、但被”订阅制”吓跑的用户。他们的共识出奇一致:单篇付费、打包订阅、一次一买——只要付钱的方式不逼人签卖身契,钱不是问题。问题是付费墙和订阅制度把”想付钱的人”和”想收钱的人”隔在了结账台的两端。屏蔽一个网站很容易,让两边重新坐下谈价,才是真正的难题。
引用帖子
| # | 标题 | URL |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 |
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