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[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I love Ecosia because I love trees and will keep using them until I can afford kagi or something.

But one thing that drives me through the wall.. If I search something in my native language, because I want results that are in my native language, google/bing (which ecosia uses) decides to translate reddit posts for me and Ecosia slaps them to the top of the results. Its rather annoying.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Mandatory reminder: Ecosia plants zero trees unless you click on ads.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Hear hear.

Its the only website in my adblocker whitelist.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I have the same experience and it drives me nuts - if I wanted English results, I'd search in English!

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Its such a weird thing to do. Especially when you click the translated link and it opens a page that is not translated. So if they think they are "helping" people who don't know the language, how exactly does it help that they translate the title and half a sentence in the search results.