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- privacy@lemmy.ml
Ecosia adds “contractually forced” Microsoft Clarity tracking (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/about-clarity | privacy faq : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more.
They will also add an optional Google setting. Enabling the cookie will allow to get search results from Google, but also to get tracked by Google.
Optional Microsoft advertising tracking is still a thing, tho it may not be necessary if Bing can get a fingerprint and behaviour of the user in real time…
This may be the final flow for Ecosia for me. Unless somehow the Microsoft Clarity can be private… But I don’t think so.
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I don’t want to spam but just wrote up a huge ass comment detailing several novel and open source search engines that don’t get talked about much. If anyone here would like to learn more about SearX, Marginalia Search, and YaCy feel free to check it out
Nice. Bookmarked to check out later 🏆
Thanks!
I use Ecosia for the environmental aspect, not the privacy, so I’m gonna stay with it.
Same, plus clearing all cookies when closing the browser. Still, combining search tterms and IP is giving me pause.
Ecosia doesn’t apply tracking cookies. And fingerprinting does not need cookies. It just needs to know what you are.
Device size, information, browser… And other shared info.
RIP
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It’s fine, it’s bing with a portion of profit going to charity (tree planting)
The option to use google search instead while still having part of the profit going to charity also isn’t a bad thing
If you’re using either then this is the more ethical option
Kagi advertisers are out in force today.
Is there a reason people aren’t suggesting startpage as an alternative to ecosia or DuckDuckGo?
What I remember : Startpage has been bought by an advertising company. So who knows what they could do with it.
Yup, i’ve sent this link before:
https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
For me that was reason enough to not use them anymore, but for a long time, i almost exclusively used it.
Mm I do think I remember the controversy around that. Such a bummer because their anonymous webpage viewing is such a cool feature
Yeah startpage fucking slaps, so this is a real shame.
Startpage is very slow and chock full of ads now.
Keep up with the Duck.
SearXNG has the answer(s)
Same, searxng is great.
all the more reason to keep using ublock origin.
Not sure using Ecosia has any benefit if using ublock to block everything.
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Ecosias results are almost as bad as DDGs.
Just get kagi and remember what good web searching feels like.
I’d rather never use a search engine again than pay $10 a month for one
How would you even function on the internet without one?
Knowing the sites you use
What kind of job do you do that never requires research?
I thought we were talking about a personal setting and weren’t including internal search engines but there are many jobs that don’t require it
