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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 天前

Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 天前
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Ecosia is a search engine that talks up its green credentials. It repackages Microsoft Bing and puts its own ads on. All the money comes from those ads. Ecosia’s big pitch is those ads pay for plan…

plants vs zombies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqF8ECpAIzs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260703-ecosias-odious-greenwashing-now-with-ai - podcast

time: 7 min 11 sec

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  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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    ah shit. it seemed to work better than ddg recently so i was recommending it to others. guess i should look for an alternative again…

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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    Because I’m not 400 pounds doesn’t mean I’m not fat.

    Ecosia doesn’t build data centers, ecosia cannot control government approval of data centers what they can do is mitigate the effects of those data centers with their tree planting scheme

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      what they can do is mitigate the effects of those data centers

      Oooor, and I know this is a bit of a wild idea, they could instead not offer llm search.

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      how does union busting help?

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for “Ecosia” and cut’n’paste some text you had to hand?

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    Removed by mod

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      No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

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