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I used it until I switched to kagi. It was fine. Search results are better on Kagi and I’m not giving any information to Microsoft, but planting trees is nice.
I do have an opinion about Ecosia, but it's just based on feelings, so it doesn't even make sense to share it. Apologies for not answering your question.
Instead I would like to focus on this point:
Ecosia isn't very private, since it sends data to Bing
Also DuckDuckGo does this, but they aggregate and anonymize that data before forwarding it to Bing. That's probably the best they can do without building their own first-party infrastructure. I would imagine Ecosia does the same.
no, ddg uses bing's searches plus its own little index, but you never touch bings server, ddg does it for you, data being sent to bing comes from their servers not your pc
I like trees so I use it.
I've been using it for about a year. I'm not sure if privacy is really a big problem. It might depend on your search phrase. I don't think Bing/MS can identify you that easily when searching with Ecosia.
It works well for me most of the time, though. I barely need to use Google.
Things will really get exciting once they have their own index.
It's there since long enough to know that, if privacy was on their roadmap, it would already be there. That's my point of view, but I haven't take a look at their stance about it, it might be in the works, I just don't know.