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This service was my go-to browser and homepage, primarily because of its tree planting initiative, but it’s become user-unfriendly, demanding cloudflare verification every time I launch it. This issue is only present on the desktop version, not the mobile one. If you regularly clear your browser history, this new requirement is highly annoying. I’m close to removing the extension and switching to another search engine. Well done, team, fewer trees will be planted because of this unnecessary change.
Used to like Ecosia and use it exclusively for my searches - because Google became downright unusable due to its selling algorithms and AI "help" that isn't really helping.Imagine my surprise when the developer of Ecosia decided to add AI to their, supposedly, ecologically-conscious product. I had to do a double-take. A feature no one asked for, based in technology that's consistently wrong and decimating the power and water supplies as we speak. You can't even "opt out" on the mobile app! You're tied to a useless, harmful feature - but that's okay, they will just plant more trees:)))) In their chase after tha market share, the Devs of Ecosia knowingly destroyed a good product. Won't be using it again.
I have been using Ecosia for years now, having switched over in an effort to begin moving away from Google's privacy issues and hard push for AI-generated tools. I was disappointed when I found out today that Ecosia had established its own AI-summary tool in the search engine. I was even more disappointed when, while trying to turn off this feature, the setting would reset every time I "saved" my preferences. I assume this problem will be fixed soon, or that if I made an Ecosia account my preferences would actually remain, but the fact that this AI tool is opt-out rather than opt-in in the first place just makes me think that Ecosia is going the way of everything else on the internet. I will not be using this search engine again.
Four words ; Blantantly refuses to work.And I know this can't just be me that whenever I try to search something using Ecosia it says "Web page blocked! You have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked." I know it can't just be me, because if you look into the security certificate, the "Issued To:" and "Issued By" both say "Fortiguard SDNS Blocked Page".
I could not even find news articles I was searching for, which I could find via other search engines, results were limited in number but one thing was very clear though they use bing as infrastructure whom already do quite some policing ecosia adds some more policing no matter what you do.If news is censored, I cannot trust them. Especially in these times.
Ecosia is a good search engine because it helps the environment however it doesn't compare to google or Microsoft Bing because of its lack of AI and poor answers as it does give it to you it just lists websites, and you have to find the information yourself. Its good if you want to be ecofriendly but bad if you are researching stuff in general.
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