… Cool reply, thanks. Anyways, I do hope now is the time linux will take off. I recently did the switch myself

Unfortunately these are not a serious threat to them. When it comes to personal desktop / laptop OS market share, linux is in the single digits.

Forget Apple. Without buying any new hardware, i managed to replace Windows with Ubuntu just a month ago. My most hated moment on windows was the time i saw the onedrive ad in file explorer… That felt way too intrusive.

Well said and a good reminder to keep our loyalties / fanboyisms in check

I did not mean that they get paid by governments… loss of revenue comes with loss of market share. You’re not likely to pay for Mozilla VPN if Mozilla cannot offer their services in your country.

With the same logic, nothing is stopping people to download firefox from alternative sources 🤷‍♂️ There would be losses in market share (in Russia) had they refused to play along, but now Mozilla spread it’s buttcheeks for governments to impose themselves. Once again, it’s mostly about the money.

Factually correct :) Sony use symbols not letters

How it has not caught on to call it Xitter (Shitter)… I don’t know

it’s greed. whether under a socialist regime, capitalist, communist or other, all it takes to destroy the system is for greedy people in power to force it open by buying judges and politicians. capitalism is in no way a prerequisite.

“Gammy you tool! You used this OS on the internet? You’re such a failure, get out of my face. It’s on you to fix it, and see that it doesn’t happen again.”

No such assumption is made. Ecosia is clear when an entire project fails, and takes into account tree survival rates when they claim to have planted over 200 million trees. It’s all clarified on their website. Regardless of all of that, they take all ad-revenue to reforest and I’d say that’s a better deal than Google or MS.

They’re a non-profit, they plant trees, and they’re carbon negative. So what are they green-washing?

Fair enough. I was using Google + uBlock Origin. I tolerate the ads now on Ecosia and I actually click them when it’s what I was searching for.

OK posting here to address the skepticism, which I completely understand and have been through. Here are some articles that came up when simply searching “is ecosia legit”: Utopia “Ecosia is certainly legit. It’s above board”, Snopes “Ecosia makes money through advertisements on its search engine. While a portion of that money is used to fund the operational costs of the business, about 80% of its surplus revenue is donated to environmental organizations and tree-planting projects around the world.”, GoodGoodGood, TechJunkie and there’s plenty more

They partner with multiple search providers, not just MS. And yes ad-blockers, but I’ve disabled it for ecosia.org

Huh? Not that I know of. They’re going strong, taking on more projects around the world and are pretty transparent about what they do - they had an article about how / why one of their projects failed which i read but can’t find right now.

I was really skeptical at first, but they’re legit. It’s a non-profit that’s been around since 2009, based in Berlin. Have a look at their blog, you’ll find project updates, the financials are broken down by expenditure and much more. Finally they’re getting some spotlight with this recent TechCrunch article and their big efforts on Social. What really hooked me in is that they signed a legal contract binding them to the not-for-profit purpose forever - more on this. Edit: about Mr. Oliver (love this guy) he is absolutely correct, but he is referring to for-profit companies that pollute and then plant some trees to pretend like they give a damn. Ecosia is a not-for-profit whose purpose is to plant with a purpose, meaning they reconnect forest patches that have been split, they return livelihood and wildlife to areas that have gone through droughts and seen increased poverty etc…

100% relatable. Done with these abusive subscriptions.

I never used Prime Video, and I cancelled my Prime subscription in protest against this shit. Never going back.

Hey, this looks super interesting though there’s something i did not fully understand: “Fully end-to-end encryption local Signal bridge (local WhatsApp and all e2ee network bridges coming soon)” Does that mean we get send to end encryption for Signal and Whatsapp and more coming later? I’m assuming i would have to have a WhatsApp account and login through this app to receive Whatsapp messages?