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Half the population would produce half the emissions and consume half the resources considering the same emissions per capita per country and equivalent population density per country.
We cannot kill half of the population but we can consume half. We could avoid replacing phones every two years. We could eat less meat. We could avoid having so many cars.
I just tried to use the search engine without Javascript and that's a really bad result. [1] [1] https://imgur.com/a/ybtiAkk
I doubt they bother wasting their resources on optimizing for the 0.001% of people who have JS disabled.
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Half the population would produce half the emissions and consume half the resources considering the same emissions per capita per country and equivalent population density per country.
We cannot kill half of the population but we can consume half. We could avoid replacing phones every two years. We could eat less meat. We could avoid having so many cars.
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Sure, here you go: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206019452-How-d... Like any other search engine, Ecosia earns money from clicks on the advertisements that appear above and beside the search results. The advertisements on Ecosia are clearly labeled as Ads and are text links to websites that pay for each click by users. The ads are delivered to you by our partner Bing, who pays Ecosia a share of the rev…
Somehow the math doesn't add up for me. If these numbers are to be believed, planting a tree costs maybe 50 cents, max. I am....skeptical.
https://blog.ecosia.org/content/images/2019/06/Financial-Rep... From their infographic, you can see that Ecosia donates 51.6% of its income to planting trees, the rest going to employee incomes, reserves, and "spreading the word". You can save yourself the extra step and simply donate to the foundations that Ecosia donates money to: edenprojects.org hommesetterro.com greenbeltmovement.org itpa.org.br
If you don't click on ads, or have an Adblocker installed, you generate no money for Ecosia. Thus, no trees get planted. I think it's important to point this out, because in their marketing, they make it sound as if searching alone is enough. There's also this little counter in the upper right corner. 45 searches (on average) are required to plant a tree. Of course, only if you click on an ad. You could even argue th…
I mean, maybe this is obvious, but whenever you visit a site that derives revenue from ads with an adblocker installed, you generate no money for that site, and thus X doesn't get supported, where X might be journalism, services, or in this case planting trees.
ecosia financial reports: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti...
For 170k euors spent in salaries they are able to hire 39 people. Seems quite less from the US standard.
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Definitely not impossible. Microsoft offers a pay-as-you-go Bing Search API ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-... ). I can only assume ecosia share this data with Microsoft because doing so has allowed them to land a more lucrative deal.
I would assume they send the IP so that Bing will return location specific search results for weather, local businesses and such. I see no reason to assume malicious intent.
7 million active users, 70 million trees... only 10 trees have been planted per user? I like the idea but I wonder on average just how many searches it takes for one tree to be planted.
...how much profit do you think a search engine makes per user?
If you don't click on ads, or have an Adblocker installed, you generate no money for Ecosia. Thus, no trees get planted. I think it's important to point this out, because in their marketing, they make it sound as if searching alone is enough. There's also this little counter in the upper right corner. 45 searches (on average) are required to plant a tree. Of course, only if you click on an ad. You could even argue th…
> I think it's important to point this out, because in their marketing, they make it sound as if searching alone is enough. Thank you for pointing that out. There is no point using it for search if you are using ad-blocking software.