And, the search results are crap. As bad as Google has gotten, it’s better than Bing/DDG/Ecosia.
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KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m quite hesitant to use Ecosia. This whole planting trees while searching sounds good, but if we are honest, it only works if I disable my ad blocker and occasionally click on the ads being shown. And this is something I really do not want to do. And if I use Ecosia with an ad blocker, I’m kind of planting negative trees because I’m only producing costs and no revenue.
LordMayor@piefed.social 1 month ago
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can choose Google as your source in Ecosia
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
That's the sticking point. I use NoAI DDG as my main engine, but I keep having to go back to Alphabet.
chris@l.roofo.cc 1 month ago
Try kagi. Seriously. You can try it for free.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
I'm not interested in supporting paid search, or being subscribed to a search engine with a "try it". So, no thank you.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 1 month ago
Not true!
The ads are like sponsored results at the top of the result page, and they themselves encourage you not to click them unless you otherwise would. They get the money for the sponsored result either way.
I’ve been using ecosia for quite a while now, with a pihole and never clicking sponsored links. Its very doable.