Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
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Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#2Does anyone use Ecosia every day? How does it compare with DuckDuckGo and Qwant?
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#3I really like the idea of Ecosia and Steward Owned companies, but as somebody who wants out of the Ad game completely, uses uBlock Origin religiously and pays for services like email and search. I haven't actually used Ecosia, but am interested in others experiences with it. But I imagine in the HN crowd a lot of other people fit the same profile as myself.
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#4I really like the idea of Ecosia and Steward Owned companies, but as somebody who wants out of the Ad game completely, uses uBlock Origin religiously and pays for services like email and search. I haven't actually used Ecosia, but am interested in others experiences with it. But I imagine in the HN crowd a lot of other people fit the same profile as myself.
You pay for search and email? What services do you use? May I ask you why, if you're wanting to go into it?
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#5Does anybody happen to have a pointer to further research this "Steward Owned company" legal structure? Since they're based in Germany, I assume this is a translation of a German legal term of sorts, but I couldn't find the original or anything that would let me learn more about it.
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#6Does anyone use Ecosia every day? How does it compare with DuckDuckGo and Qwant?
They just use Bing and Google Search https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/579-search-results-...
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#7I really like the idea of Ecosia and Steward Owned companies, but as somebody who wants out of the Ad game completely, uses uBlock Origin religiously and pays for services like email and search. I haven't actually used Ecosia, but am interested in others experiences with it. But I imagine in the HN crowd a lot of other people fit the same profile as myself.
You pay for search and email? What services do you use? May I ask you why, if you're wanting to go into it?
I pay for Tuta (tuta.com) for email.
The only paid search engine I know is Kagi (kagi.com)
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#8I'm sure Ecosia are a good company, but headlines like this always make me a little suspicious. Non profits make a lot of money for their founders without it ever being "profit". Ecosia are reporting just over 600K euros a month in wages, I'd love to see the split and what % of that goes to the CEO.
You don't need to sell a business if you have plenty of income from it every month - especially if now that can't be taken away from you.
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#9I have and still use Ecosia Daily.
Its a search engine, the same as all the other search engines.
Ecosia delivers a combination of search results from Yahoo!, Google, Bing and Wikipedia.
Advertisements are delivered by Yahoo! and Microsoft Advertising as part of a revenue sharing agreement with the company.
Ad revenue is then used to plant trees
you cant complain about that
Re: Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
#10I'm sure Ecosia are a good company, but headlines like this always make me a little suspicious. Non profits make a lot of money for their founders without it ever being "profit". Ecosia are reporting just over 600K euros a month in wages, I'd love to see the split and what % of that goes to the CEO. You don't need to sell a business if you have plenty of income from it every month - especially if now that can't be ta…
Yes avoiding another Mozilla situation should be a high priority for anyone interested in this area in future.