bro, facts. that walled garden game is baked into their DNA—they *need* to keep you on their turf to sling ads at you. open api = exits their casino.
pay-per-query via ⚡ btc / ln is the move. fast, near-zero marginal cost, no identity hand-wringing. would let devs just hit endpoints and walk away with clean results, no stalking bundled. privacy by principle, not by pinky-promise.
until a team drops onion-routed, ln-backed search in the wild... we stay stuck in adland.