Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising

• andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that had previously meant its mobile browsers and browser extensions were prevented from blocking advertising requests made by Microsoft scripts on third party sites.

  Wonder how they were able to negotiate what even ecosia weren’t.

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  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.

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• Vincent@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That doesn't seem to mention Microsoft Clarity, other than it being on the list of domains that its ad blocker (not its search engine) blocks?

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  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Clarity.ms is on the list of blocked domains, I believe these are also blocked on the search engine.

    https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/no-tracking/

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    • Vincent@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What does "blocked on the search engine" mean?

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