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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 21 hours ago

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 · 21 hours ago
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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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    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…

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    Removed by mod

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      No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

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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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      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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      how does union busting help?

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