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Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis 18 points 2 months ago

I wish them luck with this. I'm not optimistic but wish them the best. The space is finally ripe for competition.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

privacy folks, what's the skinny on these two?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Iirc they're ok but not amazing, proprietary and mostly good because they aren't Google or Bing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Not trying to do FUD and I work for a competitor, but I am a privacy person so I'll provide some links and then it's to you.

Ecosia's privacy policy on the data they collect and process includes your IP address, search terms and session behavioral data

Qwant's privacy policy seems better with most stuff you wouldn't like only coming if you make an account. My only pause would be the Huawei relationship which is effectively FUD because there's not really a reason (I just am not keen on this kind of partnership)

Once again, my opinion is going to be heavily biased here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been using Qwant on my laptop and phone for a couple months. Solid search. More useful than Google. The first result is usually the one I’m looking for

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How does it compare to DDG? I've never even heard of these two.

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

will be pretty similar due to the Bing: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ althought Ecosia, I believe, now sources G or B location dependent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

They don’t track and sell user data like DDG does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Ecosia sells data to Microsoft. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd seriously love to use Ecosia but that stops me from doing so

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather donate $10 to a charity that plants trees than be shown ads. That's just me though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

sadly for me money is that tight right now, so if I can donate via ad revenue I definitely would (or better yet donating my time instead)