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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by gpm on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:16PM (#19325280)
They claim to be merging 'traditional' search results from multiple providers, explicitly calling out Oath (Yahoo) as well as Bing. So, hopefully, substantially. Realistically, somewhat.

[0] https://duck.co/help/results/sources

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by thekyle on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:49PM (#19325384)
According to Wikipedia, Yahoo is also a Bing wrapper so I'm not sure what the point in using both is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by greglindahl on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @11:09PM (#19325448)
Yes, Yahoo's independent search index was phased out over a decade ago.
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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by dotcoma on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:44AM (#19326261)
Point taken. But privacy-wise, does anybody have any qualms about Ecosia?
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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by ignoramous on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:50AM (#19326528)
You might want to change the defaults a bit: https://www.ecosia.org/settings

Esp, the disable personalized results.

In their privacy section they do admit to storing identifiable information for at least 7 days (possibly more) to fight spam and improve search results. They also send user identifiable information to bing, as well, who then store it for at least 4 days. Apart from that, they use third party tools in their non-search parts which might be subject to different privacy rules than their main website.

From their app, they send information to Facebook. They use the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft as advertisment providers, if I'm not mistaken.

I encourage you to read the fine print here: https://info.ecosia.org/privacy

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by martin_a on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:24AM (#19326428)
I have none. It's Bing and the ad money goes to Ecosia.

Besides that everything I would expect from a search engine probably applies (Microsoft might get to know what I search for etc.).

But taking a little piece of cake away from Google isn't bad either.

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by ealhad on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:40AM (#19326744)
About Ecosia, none. The ads are from Bing though, and they get user data.
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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by 3into10power5 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:21PM (#19331228)
Yahoo search is bing plus indexing of its own internal products (yahooo Sports/Finance/etc)
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