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Ecosia plants 200 million trees (blog.ecosia.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)

This is a necessary reminder that Ecosia is a scam:

  • they don't "plant trees" but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes
  • "Every search plants a tree" is a lie. It's not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad
  • They use Bing results making them useless

If you're using Ecosia with an adblocker or knowingly skip over sponsored results then you are NOT in any way contributing to the tree-planting

[–] joelimgu 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But they are pretty clear about that. Also, how is that worse than Google or bing? It's not a dream sure, but its a lot better than your money going to Google

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they are not "clear about that". I can see they removed it now but for the longest time the main page had a banner saying "every search plants a tree" and also an actual counter which went up by one every time you made a search -- which was misleading, because it wasn't every "search", because you would have to click on an ad, and it wasn't "every", because it took several clicks on an ad to actually contribute an equivalent of a tree

[–] Cuttlefish1111 2 points 10 months ago

How many trees did you plant?

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