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@firefox part 3 Similarly ecosia as the default browser of firefox with a clear message on startup that ecosia plants trees when you use its search engine and giving a op (hachyderm.io)

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@firefox part 3 Similarly ecosia as the default browser of firefox with a clear message on startup that ecosia plants trees when you use its search engine and giving a option to use google in the first page itself to whoever wants to use google so that people don't change the browser itself.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re not saving the environment, they’re running a monoculture tree farm

Nope.

https://blog.ecosia.org/everyone-getting-tree-planting-wrong/

https://www.ecosia.org/#our_tree_planting_approach

https://blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how-does-ecosia-plant-trees/

https://ecosia.co/finreportsen

Instead of monocultures, we grow over 500 different native species where they are needed most. Always shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a pleasant surprise. I'll still hold a little cynacism out of caution, but it sounds much better than most.