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Ecosia adds “contractually forced” Microsoft Clarity tracking (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/about-clarity | privacy faq : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more.

They will also add an optional Google setting. Enabling the cookie will allow to get search results from Google, but also to get tracked by Google.

Optional Microsoft advertising tracking is still a thing, tho it may not be necessary if Bing can get a fingerprint and behaviour of the user in real time…

This may be the final flow for Ecosia for me. Unless somehow the Microsoft Clarity can be private… But I don’t think so.

  • @cybersandwichEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Ecosias results are almost as bad as DDGs.

    Just get kagi and remember what good web searching feels like.

    • FranziaEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      I’d rather never use a search engine again than pay $10 a month for one

      • capitalEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        How would you even function on the internet without one?

          • capitalEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            What kind of job do you do that never requires research?

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 year ago

              I thought we were talking about a personal setting and weren’t including internal search engines but there are many jobs that don’t require it