Ecosia – A Firefox Add-on That Plants Trees with Every Search
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Get Ecosia to plant trees and be climate active every day. Like other search engines, we make money through ads, but we use 100% of our profits for the planet. The Ecosia community has already planted 150 million trees in over 35 countries.
Plant trees with your searches and be climate active every day — Ecosia users are tackling climate change, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities around the world, planting the right trees in the right places.
Protect your privacy — We don’t create a profile of you, never sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted. We want trees, not your data.
Become climate positive — Not only do the trees we plant absorb CO2, we also have our own solar plants. They don't just produce enough renewable energy to power all your searches, but twice as much! This means more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the electricity grid.
Radical transparency — Our monthly financial reports disclose all of our projects so you can see exactly what we spend money on. We’re a not-for-profit tech company that dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action.
Get Ecosia today and be climate active every day.
Website: https://ecosia.org
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- Supports an important environmental cause by planting trees
- User-friendly and easy to switch to
- Provides an alternative to traditional search engines like Google
- Delivers good search results with fewer ads
- Does not change the new tab page in Firefox
- Search results are sometimes limited and unhelpful compared to Google
- Issues with displaying certain search result categories and tabs due to bugs
- Lacks options to customize search results like disabling certain features
- Inability to change the new tab page
- Limited search results compared to Google
- Desire for customization options in the search engine
- Bugs affecting the display of search results
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Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees 🌱 requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees 🌱 has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.