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We just found a search engine that provides you with as much security and privacy as DuckDuckGo but goes a step beyond. When you search using Ecosia, you not only enhance your search privacy, you also plant trees. And who doesn’t love trees?<\/span><\/p>\n Well, you don’t plant the trees, Ecosia does — and they have reports to prove it. As of the day we discovered them, Ecosia had planted over 110 million trees. Even if you’re not a tree hugger, you have to admit that’s a heck of a lot of trees. And a lot of oxygen added to the atmosphere so we can breathe, not to mention the reducing CO2 levels.<\/span><\/p>\n You can easily add Ecosia to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox by visiting https:\/\/www.ecosia.org\/<\/span><\/a> with your favorite browser and clicking…<\/span><\/p>\n Add to Chrome<\/span> But be careful…<\/strong> once you do this, your default search engine in your will be changed to Ecosia, but you can always change it back to Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or whatever you like.<\/span><\/p>\n So, we suggest<\/strong> that you try Ecosia before you click the “Add to (name of your browser)” that you go to the https:\/\/www.ecosia.org<\/span><\/a> page and type your search query in the search box. Try it out first and see if you like it. If you do, then you can click on the “Add to (name of your browser)” button.<\/span><\/p>\n We found the search results to be as good as (nearly the same as) DuckDuckGo, but not as good as Google. You must choose between efficacy and privacy, I guess.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s the scoop on Ecosia from its developers:<\/span><\/p>\n Make Ecosia your new search engine and plant trees with your searches – for free!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We stand for a better internet<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Completely transparent<\/span><\/strong> More than CO2 neutral<\/span><\/strong> Privacy friendly<\/span><\/strong> We don\u2019t store your searches permanently<\/strong> We don\u2019t sell your data to advertisers<\/strong> Your searches are encrypted<\/strong> We don\u2019t use external tracking tools<\/strong> We only collect a small amount of data to be able to improve our services. If you want to opt out of tracking, you can activate \u201cDo Not Track\u201d in your browser\u2019s settings.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If search privacy is important to you, give Ecosia a try. It helps keep your searches random and private, and it helps to make the planet we all share, a better place.<\/span><\/p>\n Give Ecosia a try by going to https:\/\/www.ecosia.org\/<\/span><\/a>. If you like it you can easily add it to your browser and make it your browser’s default search engine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Search the Web, Plant a Tree, and Get Some Extra Privacy We just found a search engine that provides you with as much security and privacy as DuckDuckGo but goes a step beyond. When you search using Ecosia, you not only enhance your search privacy, you also plant trees. And who doesn’t love trees? Well, you\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1670,2270,1656],"tags":[4067,44,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20162,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions\/20162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWe publish our monthly financial reports, so you see exactly where the income from your searches goes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nOur servers run on 200% renewable energy, and every search request removes 1kg of CO2 from the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWe don\u2019t sell your data to advertisers, have no third party trackers and anonymize all searches within one week.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>We don\u2019t create personal profiles of you based on your search history. We actually anonymize all searches within one week.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Many web services collect user data in order to sell it without asking your permission. We don\u2019t sell your data or your searches to advertising companies.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>We protect your searches from potential eavesdroppers with a securely encrypted connection. This way we make sure that nobody between you and us can see your searches.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Most websites use external tracking tools, like Google Analytics, to optimize their services. We don\u2019t use such third party trackers, in order to prevent others from accessing your searches.<\/span>
\nYou can turn off all our tracking<\/span><\/p>\n