New Ecosia search features (blog.ecosia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by AlbinJose1001@endlesstalk.org to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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[-] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 46 points 10 months ago

Wrong forum. Ecosia is not very good for privacy.

[-] sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de 12 points 10 months ago

Can you elaborate on that?

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 20 points 10 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@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 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@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks, that's good to know

[-] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 11 points 10 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@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

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