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100% this. I'm willing to pay for searches, but I'm not willing to get myself tracked and pay for the privilege.
If they did some sort of microtransaction thing, like send a small amount of monero, get a couple searches for a session. That work for me. Then it would be completely ephemeral.
If they worked out a deal with mullvad where connections from all that get low priority searches, that would also work. Cuz I trust movad to be an intermediary to obscure the payer from the search.
If you could pay them and get an onion URL, for your paid searches. It's not perfect, but it would at least break the connection between the payer and the searches. Though it's more bulky and easier to correlate multiple searches to a single person at least would be a start.