Comment on YSK that Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake

Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Wooster@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They show you ads based on your search terms, not based on trackers or digital profiles of you.

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    • Wooster@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s just a couple links at the top. It doesn’t load in any custom HTML/JS or iframe afaik.

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      • reinar@distress.digital ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        MAC address

        nope

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They sell your feet pics to degenerates

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• xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Me too! How many trees have you planted?

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  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 changes this as soon as possible. Thanks for highlighting that!

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    • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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    • Swim@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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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