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Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)

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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.

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[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ecosias results are almost as bad as DDGs.

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

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How would you even function on the internet without one?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Knowing the sites you use

[-] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 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

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