New Ecosia search features

beta_tester, 7 months ago

Wrong forum. Ecosia is not very good for privacy.

sneaky_b45tard, 7 months ago

Can you elaborate on that?

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

for starters, it’s Cloudflared.

They admit to be sending your IP to Bing with every search too.

“For example, when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting”

ultratiem, 7 months ago

So basically like using Chrome with Bing it sounds like. They don’t even anonymize the query before sending it. Zero privacy.

sneaky_b45tard, 7 months ago

Thanks, that’s good to know

UprisingVoltage, 7 months ago

Yeah, tbf Ecosia is an alternative to Google and an ethical one on top of that, but not private.

I’d recommend it on a work system

FarraigePlaisteach, 7 months ago

Yeah. I use it but wouldn’t post about it here.