Ecosia is great in general, they’ve done stuff like this before for wildfires and such, and they are carbin negative and use 100% of their profits for helping the planet

The search engine is also pretty good too!

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    I use ecosia as my default search engine! It’s pretty great, and it respects privacy. It even tells you roughly how many trees have been planted from your searches.

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      Wait… how does that work?

      If our searches fund trees, then our searches have to be making them money… and I’m not aware of many advertisers that respect privacy.

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        66 is recorded currently in my ecosia account, but I used to have well over a hundred on an old PC before I ever realized you could sign in to track across devices. I probably have a ton on my work PC that isn’t tracked to my account either.

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          I just learned you can create an account to track this! I am always a bit sad to see my progress being lost on cookie refreshes or whatever happens. Will change this as soon as possible. Thanks for highlighting that!

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          Thats great! How long have you been using Ecosia? I just wanna compare with my stats, since I have 1.4k

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          giving all your data for the love of trees, now thats dedication!

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            Their privacy policy is pretty good and good enough for me, and it’s leagues ahead of Bing and Google’s. Also, it’s just for tracking trees, which isn’t hard to do privately

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              mmmkay… remember google used to say… dont be evil, now they have literally put DRM in their browser so ensure they are serving you ads.

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                Well that’s because they went public and expanded and all that jazz; Ecosia is a certified B-Corp and nonprofit and an owner sold their shares to the Purpose Foundation so they can’t sell Ecosia.

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    I made the switch to Ecosia because it’s basically the same as DDG but it gives me the option of going to Google Maps as a link, rather than always having to type the !g tag.

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      Yeah, and it also has the feature where if you want to search something on google just put #g in the search and it auto redirects to google like bangs!

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        Yeah both DDG and Ecosia have the shortcuts, what annoyed me with DDG was that if you searched for something then clicked a Map result it took you into Apple Maps, which was crap. With Ecosia when you click Maps it just gives you a choice between Google and Bing - with DDG I’d always click the link and then have to go back and type in the bang.

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      I dunno, I used to use ecosia and eventually switched back to Google because ecosia kept giving me bad or irrelevant search results compared to Google. That was a couple years ago, is it worth it giving it another try?

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        Both Ecosia and DDG use Bing for their back end. I still find myself throwing in a !g occassionally when I don’t like the results, but frankly Google has gone down hill and isn’t much better a lot of the time.

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    I guess they’re announcing it in advance so that if anyone objects to funding humans instead of trees (as someone surely will) then they’ll be free to not use Ecosia on that day.

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      Well that, it shows they are doing good things and they care, and it functions as an incentive for people to use Ecosia or convince others to join like this post here does

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        True but it does look like planting trees has been their entire thing up until now. Maybe they’ve done 1-time things like this before, I dunno.

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    Does anyone have recommendations on good places to donate more directly?

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    Can someone please explain how to move to ecosia on an Android mobile device, but in tech-stupid-ese?

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    Helping earthquake victims based on their news coverage is a little questionable, when you advertise with investing in sustainability.

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    I think you should probably instead know that it’s better to just donate directly to the aid agencies actually supplying the aid instead of letting a non-aid entity charity-wash themselves to get more money later.

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      Well, first off, you don’t donate to them, you use their service and they donate the revenue. Second, Ecosia is a non-profit and a certified B-Corperation. Third, they aren’t charity-washing, all the advertising they did was this short blog post.