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

  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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      • Wooster@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Okay, if that’s the case then that is a perfectly reasonable implementation.

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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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