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Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)
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Ecosia adds "contractually forced" Microsoft Clarity tracking (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/about-clarity | privacy faq : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more.

They will also add an optional Google setting. Enabling the cookie will allow to get search results from Google, but also to get tracked by Google.

Optional Microsoft advertising tracking is still a thing, tho it may not be necessary if Bing can get a fingerprint and behaviour of the user in real time...

This may be the final flow for Ecosia for me. Unless somehow the Microsoft Clarity can be private... But I don't think so.

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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

aren't they using bing also? (I never checked, and still not going to check right now... because I'm .......)

I'm using duckduckgo but how would they avoid this if Microsoft make it mandatory by contract?

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that had previously meant its mobile browsers and browser extensions were prevented from blocking advertising requests made by Microsoft scripts on third party sites.

Wonder how they were able to negotiate what even ecosia weren't.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.

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