Ecosia

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Current Milestone: 200 million trees!

Ecosia has 20+ Million Users.

Start planting trees today: https://www.ecosia.org/.

If Ecosia was the size of Google it would absorb 15% of global emissions.

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How long have you used Ecosia and how did you find it? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I personally been using it for almost 5 years. I heard about it from a colleague a few years before that but I forgot about it, and then an online ad reminded me to check them out again.

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[–] notnotmike 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I used it for many years but stopped when I got my new phone and reimaged my desktop. But I'm back into it now because of this community!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get that. It’s a pain to set everything up again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Which is why I'm glad that, in the EU, Android phones ask you which search engine you want to use. Most people don't overcome the inertia of changing the default.

[–] andioop 3 points 8 months ago

Came as a recommendation from a personal friend who finds a lot of cool sites/services/apps that I might be interested in. Started using it about 5 years ago. It is my default search engine on my phone. I have been too lazy to make it my default on my computer, but I do most of my searching on my phone anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The family is growing nicely here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I gave my brother an iphone I put on Ecosia as the default engine. Hopefully he uses it and that plants a seed like how your coworker did ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I do that whenever people ask me for phone help. Guerilla envagelism 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have first used Ecosia in 2018 but then quit because I wasn't so used to it.

Fast forward to 2023 where I heard the team donated some of profits to assist the morocco earthquake victims. That's when I decided I try again and now I feel completely at home.

My story sounds just like yours haha.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They also have added way more features between 2018 and 2023 so it's easier to commit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Their goals have gotten more impressive so far so I feel more excitement around the project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The last video said they are 300% carbon negative through solar panels installed which is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think I started using it around 2018-2019. I liked the fact that they plant trees based on how much you use the browser, so I made it my default.

Then they added the ad blocker, and that made it my favorite for everything. If there's ever a site I need to look at without ads, I just paste the URL into Ecosia and boom.