• sunzu2
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    142 days ago

    privacy folks, what’s the skinny on these two?

    • @PrivacyDingus
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      121 day ago

      Not trying to do FUD and I work for a competitor, but I am a privacy person so I’ll provide some links and then it’s to you.

      Ecosia’s privacy policy on the data they collect and process includes your IP address, search terms and session behavioral data

      Qwant’s privacy policy seems better with most stuff you wouldn’t like only coming if you make an account. My only pause would be the Huawei relationship which is effectively FUD because there’s not really a reason (I just am not keen on this kind of partnership)

      Once again, my opinion is going to be heavily biased here.

    • @daggermoon
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      52 days ago

      I think Ecosia sells data to Microsoft. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

        • @daggermoon
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          41 day ago

          I’d rather donate $10 to a charity that plants trees than be shown ads. That’s just me though.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 day ago

            sadly for me money is that tight right now, so if I can donate via ad revenue I definitely would (or better yet donating my time instead)

    • @astropenguin5
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      132 days ago

      Iirc they’re ok but not amazing, proprietary and mostly good because they aren’t Google or Bing.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 days ago

      I’ve been using Qwant on my laptop and phone for a couple months. Solid search. More useful than Google. The first result is usually the one I’m looking for