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I just learnt about the search engine Ecosia which claims to use its advertising revenue to plant trees. I was going through their website and they seem legitimate on the surface but I wanted to check if its bs or not before using it.

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[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Privacy? Ecosia literally forwards your information to Bing. They're also behind Cloudflare.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So we're running out of reasons to use it. Personally I find the "planting trees" USP to be a potentially risky gimmick for the reason outlined above, but that is just my perspective.

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't they just sign a deal with a European privacy company?

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Qwant. Their own index plus bing. Information is still sent to Bing, plus Qwant.