What do you think about Ecosia? I have a habit of using Ecosia as the default search engine. And I do this because a while ago I was looking for a private and ethical alternative to Google.
In my view, Ecosia is a very ethical organization committed to its mission of acquiring money to finance natural restoration projects. I admit that I haven’t looked into it in depth so far, but they have a habit of releasing transparency reports.
The problem, if you can call it that, is that Ecosia isn’t very private, since it sends data to Bing to make it work. However, I think there’s good reason to trust the Ecosia organization even with this. After all, in their marketing, they’re concerned about creating a private search engine, or at least collecting only minimal data. So maybe it’s not so private now, but and in the future?
They have already shown themselves to be committed to their mission and that is why I trust them.
no, ddg uses bing’s searches plus its own little index, but you never touch bings server, ddg does it for you, data being sent to bing comes from their servers not your pc
Sure, that’s what I thought. And Ecosia doesn’t do the same?
i think ddg purportedly doesnt collect users data when they connect to ddg’s servers. im completely unaware of how ecosia handles any of this since it always felt like greenwashing to steal users data but im going by feels now i never did much investigation