#Ecosia #treeplanting #reforestation #climateaction #techforgood #planttrees #collectiveactionThis Earth Day, we’re celebrating a big milestone: 250 million …
#Ecosia #treeplanting #reforestation #climateaction #techforgood #planttrees #collectiveactionThis Earth Day, we’re celebrating a big milestone: 250 million …
I’m quite hesitant to use Ecosia. This whole planting trees while searching sounds good, but if we are honest, it only works if I disable my ad blocker and occasionally click on the ads being shown. And this is something I really do not want to do. And if I use Ecosia with an ad blocker, I’m kind of planting negative trees because I’m only producing costs and no revenue.
Not true!
The ads are sponsored results they feed through their own domain (bypasses blocking) at the top of the result page, and they themselves encourage you not to click them unless you otherwise would. They get the money for the sponsored result either way.
I’ve been using ecosia for quite a while now, with a pihole and/or ublock (depending on computer config) and never clicking sponsored links. Its very doable.
And, the search results are crap. As bad as Google has gotten, it’s better than Bing/DDG/Ecosia.
You can choose Google as your source in Ecosia
That’s the sticking point. I use NoAI DDG as my main engine, but I keep having to go back to Alphabet.
Try kagi. Seriously. You can try it for free.
I’m not interested in supporting paid search, or being subscribed to a search engine with a “try it”. So, no thank you.
I’d rather pay for a product than be the product. But do as you please.
I have a choice - pay for that, or pay for food, clothes, shelter, and the esoterica of existence - including debts that I got myself into stupidly because I trusted someone I should not have. There’s no amount of the money I need to live which I’m willing to expend on that.