Other services like Mullvad or Proton also accept such methods, so if doing so could help you make a sale more often and obtain capital, perhaps the benefit might outweigh the implementation costs.

It is a lot of inside baseball, but I can see where you're coming from.

Oh, I thought you meant they were developing tools to interact with crypto.

I wouldn't know how much effort was required for them to handle payments that way, though given the likelihood of their target demographic being interested in slightly more anonymous billing, it doesn't surprise me too much

And besides, just because other platforms can offer a service without an upfront payment, it doesn't necessarily mean they aren't charging for it in another manner.

No one HAS to use those features, but having the option to choose whether or not to do so is a really welcome feature at this point.

Yeah, I can see your point on the competitiveness front (they are orders of magnitude smaller than both of your examples, after all).

Then again, it's neither being forcibly enabled nor an extra cost to us. No need to swear or do something extra to avoid it.

Also, having an alternative for translation services that are granular with intent and formality is really handy, though I was unaware that they were delving into crypto. I don't really do much with it, but what did you see (out of curiosity on my end)?

Hmm, while I agree that search should be the main focus, I do admit that having options to summarize or provide the key points of something can come in handy (like if I'm looking for something really specific but I'm not sure if I'm using the right term).
Still, having the choice makes it better imo

You might want to give @kagi.com a try then.
While it's a paid service(though the first 100 searches are free), the difference is night and day *especially* in the relevance of the results.

Love the coloring! Now I need to find a mug like that one too 😅