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Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by kitkat_new on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:15AM (#25713510)
You imply that a website that does not mention tree planting at all, plants the most trees. Interesting.

What would you recommend people to put on their website when they genuinely would want to provide a search engine that plants trees?

Do you imply matrix.org being a protocol for closed islands for insecure, centralized silence instead of a protocol for an open network for secure, decentralized communication?

Please start finding actual arguments instead of spreading superficial unfounded commentary.

Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by tumaal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:21AM (#25714415)
> You imply that a website that does not mention tree planting at all, plants the most trees. Interesting.

They actually don't imply that but the exact opposite, which is "the website that talks the most about tree planting, plants the least". The way you phrase it reverses that logical implication, which is not what they said.

Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by mrpopo on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:58PM (#25719707)
For context, this isn't true either. Ecosia does plant a lot of trees. https://youtu.be/z1AVgbI_1r0
Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by abiogenesis on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:27PM (#25724023)
If they plant the least, someone else should plant the most.
Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by bboygravity on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:48AM (#25713753)
>> What would you recommend people to put on their website when they genuinely would want to provide a search engine that plants trees?

Everything except lies. Simple.

PS: I think the idea of a search engine like that is great (assuming the tree planting is done in a responsible way without destroy ecosystems). But I don't think implying to be privacy friendly when you're not really is great.

Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by anon321321323 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:38AM (#25714979)
Pragmatically, a regular full audit by an external entity might produce interesting results. Who is their auditor? That might be a pertinent detail to provide.
Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by gverrilla on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:48AM (#25714587)
if those people wanted to plant trees, they would. when they announce that's what they're doing, it's not about the trees anymore, but about communication and branding. and communication and branding is poised with lies and misleading.
Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by indymike on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:59AM (#25716667)
I'm looking for the plant tree apache module.
Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by drinkcocacola on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:33PM (#25718661)
Absolutely agree. @bbobgravity is trying to create a sort of heuristic rule that simply does not work.