I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

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Ecosia “tree planting” is bullshit though. They only raise funds towards the statutory goal when you click ads, so if you have an ad blocker in your browser or purposefully skip over sponsored search results then they don’t make money towards the tree planting programme.

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Well yeah, that’s how search engines make money. They aren’t magic

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Exactly, and yet they claim “each search plants a tree”.

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