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Been using it for over 10 years. I have loved the transparency reports, and only wish there were other social and environmental programs we could help with an idea like this. You know, other than freerice.
that's a long time, if you don't mind, how many trees did you plant?
Not OC, but my primary computer is currently at 79 after a bit over a year of use.
Its powered by Bing which is meh but I don't mind it so much. If I don't get good results I throw in "#g" in my search and it will run the query with Google.
honestly, i'm using for a week and i'm a pretty technical person, i always get good results searching about technical issues and linux(thats a pretty niche too) i can't complain, but maybe with others affairs it's isn't so good?, anyway good to know about that shortcut
I use ecosia for the same use case and get bad results frequently, so I have to switch to startpage sometimes
I like it more than Google tbh.
The first 20ish results of Google are either shops, YouTube or Google just struck out words of my search on it's own. Google search has already been ruined by them.
It's shit.
- You have to enable ads for it to work.
- It defaults to your IP location to set the default language.
- You can't one click toggle to English / International like with DDG but have to go through a drop down menu.
- Search results ertr hot garbage when I used it.
At least it got a native dark mode now I guess but it's still unusable for me.
Search results are the exact same as Bing iirc.
i get the rest of the points but ads? they need to get the revenue to actually plant the trees 🤨
many missunderstand that. And have adblocker activated.
And I will never click on ads, I can't even stand seeing them, so there would be no revenue anyway. I want search results, not what some algorithm thinks should become my next shopping trip.
i very well understand the sentiment but there are exceptions, this is one kinda clever way to make money without relying on someone emptying their wallets for the sake of trees, which, considering they may be already donating to other sources, could be an addition.
Worth mentioning, that its an german non-profit project. Also it uses Bing's Search-Engine.
I've used ecosia, startpage, quant, brave search. They're all ok, but brave search has been the best so far. I still tell it to use Google sometimes, but not often. Second comes start page. Ecosia was ok, but not as good as the other two. That's just my experience, though.
But it still doesn't solve the issue though of being required to look at corporate ads which are designed to increase consumption in order to solve climate issues. We will never be able to advertise our way out of this.
I know it's not a perfect solution but considering the options, it's better to "sell" my attention to corporate ads in exchange of planting trees than nothing. Even then, I rarely see ads after whitelisting the site.
As far as my research goes, Ecosia seems quite reputable and I support their mission. If they're proven to be otherwise in the future, I won't have a problem to jump ship.
Dang, three weeks in and my post got reposted?
:P
Could you send us a link here :) Instead of just saying "Wow my post got reposted!" Thanks!
Psh, nah I don't care, and I don't think this person was intentionally reposting. I think they just had the same idea. Plus, this post is more popular, and I want everyone to plant as many trees as they can!
Gotta love them tree NFTs.
I was thinking about it because I recalled people using it, and was wondering if it had its own search engine or they were just embedding Google or Bing in their page. Apparently it is the latter.
Been using Ecosia for years. With Startpage as a backup.
Same, I have Startpage on Firefox bound to “sp” so I just need to type sp in the search bar to search with startpage instead. It’s great.
Does it display dates on results? A lot of alternative I’ve tried don’t and I hate that…as a big Reddit searcher