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Our extension sets https://www.givero.com as the default search engine. After the extension got disabled and re-enabled, searches now default to Google.

So this fix is not complete.

Our efforts in getting Firefox users to install our extension has been in vain. "Luckily" we didn't have many users yet but imagine the amount of money this will cost bigger search engines like DDG, Qwant, etc.

Hello, I am the founder of Givero. We just launched, and are excited to share https://www.givero.com with you.

Givero is the search engine for people who want to positively impact the World.

We donate half of our advertising revenue to good causes like Save the Children, Eden Reforestation Projects, The Ocean Cleanup and more.

A few Q&As:

* 50% of our gross revenue goes directly to charity.

* Who we are and why we do this: https://www.givero.com/about

* We get our results from a Bing feed distributor:

Why not directly from Bing? Because Bing requires millions of searches per month before a direct deal is possible.

Why not your own index then? We tried that and gave up on the idea (we are the guys behind the now-closed Findx private search engine).

* We are privacy-centric:

We never log your IP-address, and we do not create a search history or profile.

As opposed to e.g., DuckDuckGo, we are required to pass on your IP to our search partner.

Our partner only uses the IP-address for fraud prevention and metrics provided to us.

We have a special agreement that does not allow Bing to use IP-addresses for personalized ads.

In addition to that, you can opt-out of personalized results on the search result page.

Our view on privacy: https://info.givero.com/privacy/.

* We work with full transparency:

We're a Danish company and required by law to publish our accounts yearly, and we will be releasing monthly reports of earnings and donations.

* We have open source Instant Answers:

Our first IAs are based on DDG's open source IAs: https://info.givero.com/developer/

* We have open source Search Bangs:

Like DDG's Bangs, but Apache licensed: https://github.com/giverosearch/bangs

* Read more about Givero here: https://www.givero.com/faq

Your comments and feedback are very welcome, and you are also welcome to reach out to me personally at [email protected].

and https://www.givero.com ;)

https://www.givero.com has the full range of DDG bangs - and shares its revenue with good causes.

We do not keep a history of your searches and has no user profile.

We do not use third-party analytics tools, so your IP is not shared that way.

Your IP is anonymized immediately in our analytics tool (self-hosted Matomo), and we don't store your queries there.

We anonymize our raw weblogs, which are only used for debugging purposes, after 5 days.

We do have to pass on your IP to Microsoft at the moment, but you have the option to turn off personalized results (the "filter bubble", basically) on the search result page. We are working on getting permission to further tighten the privacy options here, but Bing requires a certain volume before they're willing to discuss it (several million searches/month) as we discussed with their VP of Search Partnerships in Europe. So we're on-par with Ecosia right now, but working to be on-par with DDG.

https://www.givero.com - just launched. Givero is a search engine that shares its revenue with good causes you choose.

We silently opened to the public about a month ago, and we are currently putting the final touches on the site and story, and working on onboarding more charities. Right now you can support charities working for climate, animals and children.

Since we have a lot of DuckDuckGo fans on here, I think I should mention that Givero: * Has DuckDuckGo compatible bangs * Has Instant Answers (just launched the first 3, more to come) * Is Privacy centric. * Is Bing based, like DDG. * Is Euro hosted.

So a good mix of DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, with the key difference being that we donate 50% of our entire revenue to charities you choose.

Full disclosure: I am the founder. We're a small team based in Denmark, formerly working on Findx (privacy search engine with own index), which shut down last year.

Please let us know how it goes.