Based on several videos I’ve seen in the past Ecosia is mostly greenwashing. Not sure if they recently changed something in their business practices but apparantly they planted vast amount of monoculture trees in relatively small areas. Thus, the majority of the trees just died due to lack of light, water and nutrients.
Yeah that’s a problem with a lot of these “green” projects. The idea is good, the drive is commendable, but the implementation is so fucked it wasted 90%+ of the effort.
And of course like modern “organically grown”-labels, it helps sell your product despite mostly being empty words.
I stopped using them because I realized I was still selling my data for those trees. Went to Brave, left because image search is shit and ceo is a homophobe. Now I’m on ddg
I’ve been trying out Searx the last few days since I saw a few people recommend it on another post. I’ve had varying results, and have had to go back to google a couple of times (and was genuinely shocked when it actually got me the results I was looking for, which Searx wasn’t even close on that time). Hopefully it gets better with time, and also we don’t find out it’s run by a bigot…
I’ve also used searx but it’s kinda slow, I forgot all my reasons for not using it but I’m back on ddg and I’m pretty happy with it so far.
Searx is not a single entity, AFAIK. Anyone can host a Searx, sort of like invidious.
1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations
apparently.
Does anyone know what they base their search on nowadays? Are they still all-Bing?
They send your data to Google as well now
Kagi’s marketeers are out in force on Lemmy. They won’t stfu.
I use Ecosia and love their product
They sold out to be a data harvester
Congratulations. You should probably stop now. Too many trees will encourage the illegal logging industry to lobby on becoming legal.
