Yes a simple one time settings toggle

That's a bit of a stretch?

People who pay for Kagi likely tried the trial and found the results to be far enough better than google/microslop that they are willing to pay for the ongoing service. Or they want to support a business model that isn't based around the advertising industry, so that someday Kagi can realistically compete with the incumbents. I don't need to search for things often enough to justify the cost, but I know people who use it for work and consider it to be worth the cost.

Meanwhile people who bought NFTs thought that they could sell a copy of a digital image for lots of money.

I don’t know what to tell you other than they offer the best search results and AI in the game

I don't know man, I'm just paying for a service that works better than the mainstream free alternatives.

...I really should have sold my NFTs earlier, though.

They don't track you, but you just need to be logged in to make your searches and just trust them not to collect data

My NFTs will be worth something one day! /S

Does Bing even have an API anymore? I thought they mainly use Brave and Yandex now and some other smaller ones