Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees

This extension sets your search engine to Ecosia and customizes your new tab page so you can plant trees with every search.

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees is a Chrome extension that sets your search engine to Ecosia and customizes your new tab page, allowing you to plant trees with every search. Ecosia users have already planted 200 million trees in over 35 countries, contributing to climate action, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities. Ecosia dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action, protecting privacy, and ensuring radical transparency through monthly financial reports.
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Extension stats

Users: 1,000,000+
Version: 6.0.4 (Last updated: 2024-10-09)
Creation date: 2020-06-22
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Overrides search engine: Yes
Permissions:
  • cookies
Host permissions:
  • *://*.ecosia.org/*
Size: 34.43K

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Extension summary

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Get Ecosia to plant trees and be climate active every day. Like other search engines, we make money through ads, but we use 100% of our profits for the planet. The Ecosia community has already planted 200 million trees in over 35 countries.

Plant trees with your searches and be climate active every day — Ecosia users are tackling climate change, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities around the world, planting the right trees in the right places.

Protect your privacy — We don’t create a profile of you, never sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted. We want trees, not your data.

Become climate positive — Not only do the trees we plant absorb CO2, we also have our own solar plants. They don't just produce enough renewable energy to power all your searches, but twice as much! This means more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the electricity grid.

Radical transparency — Our monthly financial reports disclose all of our projects so you can see exactly what we spend money on. We’re a not-for-profit tech company that dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action.

Get Ecosia today and be climate active every day.


Website: https://ecosia.org

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works well as a search engine
  • Supports environmental causes by planting trees
  • Quick installation
  • Offers an option to use Google alongside Ecosia
  • Provides a dark mode feature
Cons
  • Search results are not as comprehensive or up to date as Google
  • Issues with loading search results
  • Relentless cookies pop-ups during installation
  • Problems with integration on certain browsers like Opera
  • Limited reference images available
Most mentioned
  • Concerns about data access and security
  • Search experience compared unfavorably to Google
  • Ecosia's mission to help the environment
  • Availability of the trick to switch back to Google
  • Pop-up issues related to cookies
User reviews
Pretty good, I just wish you were allowed to customize your background to anything, not just the set trees. It also does not give as much information as Google, nor does it pull up any tools I might need when I search for them. Oh, Also: If you do attempt to remove this browser extension, it will come back. I did to try to change my Google Background to a new one, but it still shows that it is on my Google.
by Shana Brown, 2024-12-06

Works great :) The only thing that Google does better is the information that's integrated right in the search results. Like when you google "weather <town>" it shows you the weather directly, without you having to click on a link. Or the unit-calculator when you google something like "5 inch in cm". Ecosia does that for translating words though. Apart from that, I see no reason to ever go back.

Eccellente ✔️
by FenrirFree, 2024-11-29
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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