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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          I could be convinced that the search engine itself isn’t profiling me.

          But if by virtue of loading the ad, the advertiser gains my IP address, MAC address, and a fingerprint based on things like my installed fonts, then that’s not really privacy in any meaningful sense.

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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.