Ecosia Reviews 

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TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

3.5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Young person was able to research harmful material without the Samaritan or any help information popping up. Ok to save trees but not people!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It's very good it has the tradition web search and also have Ai, I basically prefer the AI assesstant of ecosia since it give a short but direct answers better for quick questions. Improve so much sin... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using for years now. Such a relief to have a search engine that doesn't make me feel sick to use, adding to the destruction of a livable planet, lining the pockets of billionaires. I can a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I could not even find news articles I was searching for, which I could find via other search engines, results were limited in number but one thing was very clear though they use bing as infrastructur... See more

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Ecosia is a not-for-profit company that plants and protects trees. We dedicate 100% of our profits to the planet and create simple ways for people to be climate active every day. Collaborating with local communities, we have planted more than 170 million trees (and counting) all over the world!


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TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very Charitable and easily removed from default

It is easy to use and charitable to help earth by growing trees. People are complaining about not being able to get it off but its fairly easy you go into settings of the bar that looks like three dots . You go in to settings and look at your search engines you can disable Ecosia go on manage search engines should you need to but afterwards it will be on other search engines also on manage search engines setting and you can add it any time you like once you disable it . it will then be on other search engines which are NOT default and retry to put on default it no longer forces you to keep as default and you can swap between Ecosia and Google chrome these instructions are for Google chrome although it sounds complex it really is simple

8 September 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

it has a good cause I guess

it has a good cause, yet it was hard for me to do my school work, it was very annoying, an completely changed my search engine. I worked out how to delete it, as I can see many angry comments about not being able to delete it.

19 May 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

once you have it, it doesn't go away

its great that they want to plant trees with searches its a great idea but I got it and can't get it off. apparently theres no easy way to stop using ecosia and go back to google because theres no off button. i think ill end up having to download some sort of virus scanner to try delete it or reset my safari which would be annoying and inconvenient. i didnt like it because it was slow and the ads at the top look like your searches so i click on them without realising. but now i cant use anything else because it automatically overides everything and redirects it to the ecosia search engine. i feel betrayed by the nice guy in the video that convince me to help the world by using ecosia. its not great and i definitely do not recommend :(

13 May 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HATE IT!!!

HATE IT!!!
Has monetized ads that come up at the top of the page, just plain had an unappealing look and unsatisfactory searches. Once it started getting in the way of my work, I wanted to delete it, however, it DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO in the settings. Found that to be an incredibly low move, trying to force someone to keep Ecosia simply by hiding how to get rid of it. Finally found out how to switch it back to google (since even if you make google your home page, if you search in the URL bar, IT WILL TAKE YOU TO ECOSIA!!!) So glad to be rid of it! For those wondering, to get rid of Ecosia on a Mac:
Safari-> preferences-> extensions-> and click UNINSTALL next to ecosia. Also make sure it's not your default browser under 'general' in Safari Preferences.

If you want to save the environment, honestly it's less hassle to just plant the trees yourself.

18 January 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love it

I love it! Plant trees while you search the web
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees with its ad revenue. Get the free browser extension and use Ecosia every time you search.

21 September 2017
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