200 million trees
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Here's to 200 million thriving trees, and counting.
  • rbn@feddit.chEnglish
    471·
    10 months ago

    Based on several videos I’ve seen in the past Ecosia is mostly greenwashing. Not sure if they recently changed something in their business practices but apparantly they planted vast amount of monoculture trees in relatively small areas. Thus, the majority of the trees just died due to lack of light, water and nutrients.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      10 months ago

      Yeah that’s a problem with a lot of these “green” projects. The idea is good, the drive is commendable, but the implementation is so fucked it wasted 90%+ of the effort.

      And of course like modern “organically grown”-labels, it helps sell your product despite mostly being empty words.

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
      114·
      10 months ago

      I stopped using them because I realized I was still selling my data for those trees. Went to Brave, left because image search is shit and ceo is a homophobe. Now I’m on ddg

      • DessertStorms@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’ve been trying out Searx the last few days since I saw a few people recommend it on another post. I’ve had varying results, and have had to go back to google a couple of times (and was genuinely shocked when it actually got me the results I was looking for, which Searx wasn’t even close on that time). Hopefully it gets better with time, and also we don’t find out it’s run by a bigot…

        • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’ve also used searx but it’s kinda slow, I forgot all my reasons for not using it but I’m back on ddg and I’m pretty happy with it so far.

        • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Users that open a new private tab (also referred to as “incognito” by some users) in Brave will be presented with an option to select DuckDuckGo as their default search engine.

          I mean…you can set ddg as default in any browser

          • jmanes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            That is not why I brought attention to this partnership. It was to point out that DDG was still willing to associate with and partner with Brave. Folks who are hyper-opposed to supporting Brave due to their CEO may not know this.

            • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              I don’t know why ddg would associate themselves with Brave but I’ll definitely put them on closer watch now, especially with the whole Microsoft tracking deal.

  • Lath@kbin.social
    412·
    10 months ago

    Congratulations. You should probably stop now. Too many trees will encourage the illegal logging industry to lobby on becoming legal.