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Important to know: Ecosia only receives money if you click on ads. It doesn't get any if you merely display them, and even less if you block them.
by rakoo 6y ago
Important to know: Ecosia only receives money if you click on ads. It doesn't get any if you merely display them, and even less if you block them.
- kitkat_new 6y agohmm, they get money although you block the ads? Really?
- toper-centage 6y agoYes that's true. But you know how on YouTube you only receive ad money after you have a certain number of views? And the more views the bigger the % of ad revenue? Bing Ads is the same
- rakoo 6y agoIndeed, but with the typical HN audience that has a higher anti-ad bias than the rest of the population, I was thinking it was important to remind that merely switching to Ecosia will not totally help them
- k1m 6y agoI don't know if they still do this, but not long ago they used to try and get you to switch off your ad blocker with an obnoxious message saying "Ads plant trees! We’ve detected that you are using an ad blocker. We plant trees thanks to income earned from ads. Please disable your ad blocker for Ecosia so that we can keep on planting."
- JosephRedfern 6y agoAs a counter-argument, is it not a little obnoxious to use Ecosia with your ad-blocker turned on? What's the point of using Ecosia if not to help them fund-raise for their environmental projects? Why not use Google or Bing directly (with an ad-blocker) and save the Ecosia the bandwidth costs?
- k1m 6y agoYou're right. I don't use it, and I don't promote it. But I don't think it's very clear to everyone who does that Ecosia needs you to click ads. Many environmentalists are also anti-consumerists, and I suspect would hesitate to use or promote this search engine if its reliance on advertising were made clearer.
- JosephRedfern 6y agoI guess it's quite a difficult thing to communicate without encouraging users to click on ads, which presumably would get them in hot water with the ad networks.
- kitkat_new 6y agono point in using it if you block ads?
- giarc 6y agoI tried Ecosia for probably 2-3 weeks. It is awful, correction, bing is awful. The ads are totally not related to my search and my search results are much worse than Google. Had to uninstall it.