Ecosia is a search engine that talks up its green credentials. It repackages Microsoft Bing and puts its own ads on. All the money comes from those ads. Ecosia’s big pitch is those ads pay for plan…
  • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    ah shit. it seemed to work better than ddg recently so i was recommending it to others. guess i should look for an alternative again…

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Because I’m not 400 pounds doesn’t mean I’m not fat.

    Ecosia doesn’t build data centers, ecosia cannot control government approval of data centers what they can do is mitigate the effects of those data centers with their tree planting scheme

    • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      what they can do is mitigate the effects of those data centers

      Oooor, and I know this is a bit of a wild idea, they could instead not offer llm search.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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      3 days ago

      This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for “Ecosia” and cut’n’paste some text you had to hand?