Danny Garside
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To save data expense and server load: Do you think it would be useful to know the size of a website before loading it? I mean, in the search result page. It could promote a lighter web. Is there any firefox extension to know it in Android? @ecosia
#solarpunk #smallweb #slowweb #lightweb #ecosia #sustainability #firefox #android
To save data expense and server load: Do you think it would be useful to know the size of a website before loading it? I mean, in the search result page. It could promote a lighter web. Is there any firefox extension to know it in Android? @ecosia
#solarpunk #smallweb #slowweb #lightweb #ecosia #sustainability #firefox #android
Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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2025 FOSS tools I use
Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes
Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox
Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant
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The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.
My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.
(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
@sarahjamielewis not sure whether #firefox forks like in @iode's #iodéOS can also offer "AI disable by default" or remove any #AI code, but it seems a legitimite way to go. Also, it will be an #EU country to handle such modifications. #France #digitalsouvereignity
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iodé Browser
iodé browser is based on Firefox with #telemetry disabled, trackers removed, and alternative search engines: #Qwant (default), #Brave, #Ecosia, #Metager, Qwant light, #Startpage and several #Searx instances.
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https://iode.tech/iodeos/
2025 FOSS tools I use
Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes
Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox
Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant
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alcinnz
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We invested 2M euros into a solar project that doesn’t just make energy — it brings nature back 🌳
It now powers almost 6,000 households and saves around 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year.
Clean power, restored soil, biodiversity. This is how we back Ecosia with 100% green energy ✨
Every Ecosia search helps make projects like this possible.
We Need a Nobel Prize in Climate and Planetary Health.
The climate crisis is humankind’s greatest challenge. We call for a new Nobel Prize to honor those leading the way forward — and we begin by endowing the first award with €1,000,000.
https://www.climatenobelprize.org/
Great initiative by Ecosia!
#Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ecosia #nobelprize #climateaction #climatenobelprize
We invested 2M euros into a solar project that doesn’t just make energy — it brings nature back 🌳
It now powers almost 6,000 households and saves around 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year.
Clean power, restored soil, biodiversity. This is how we back Ecosia with 100% green energy ✨
Every Ecosia search helps make projects like this possible.
“An extremely negative signal”: French court dismisses search engine Qwant's case against Microsoft
"In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Competition Authority found that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position. This is a setback for Qwant, which is seeking to break free from its dependence on the American giant.
The verdict is in, and it does not favor Qwant. The French search engine, which has been engaged in legal proceedings for nearly a year against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the B2B search engine market, has been dismissed by the Competition Authority.
In its verdict handed down on Thursday, the authority found that Qwant had not provided “sufficient evidence” to demonstrate that the American giant was dominant in the market in question, nor that “the conditions for abuse of economic dependence were met.”
Archive: https://archive.is/q5NRx
@ueeu The press release is indeed not convincing. #Qwant may be developing its own search technology ( #ESP, with #ecosia), but until they develop it, they are dependent on #Bing. The fact that #Microsoft imposes restrictions on the development of #ESP demonstrates and strengthens that dependence. #antitrust
Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/
#HackerNews #Ecosia #AI #green #technology #sustainability #environmental #awareness
Le Alternative
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Alternative a Google Search
Quali alternative a Google Search? Se volete riappropriarvi della privacy nelle vostre ricerche ecco qualche motori di ricerca alternativo!
https://www.lealternative.net/2019/10/18/alternative-a-google-search/
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Kind of disappointed to see #Ecosia jumping on the crummy "AI overview" bandwagon in search by default. Happy that I could opt out, but I would have thought an environmental focused browser/search engine would differentiate themselves by either skipping this garbage - or at least making it opt-IN.
Hey @ecosia I want to keep using your products - consider doing better for our planet?
Kind of disappointed to see #Ecosia jumping on the crummy "AI overview" bandwagon in search by default. Happy that I could opt out, but I would have thought an environmental focused browser/search engine would differentiate themselves by either skipping this garbage - or at least making it opt-IN.
Hey @ecosia I want to keep using your products - consider doing better for our planet?
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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A diferença que uma pessoa apenas (neste caso eu) pode fazer enquanto apenas faz pesquisas simplesmente trocando o google pelo #ecosia.
A diferença que uma pessoa apenas (neste caso eu) pode fazer enquanto apenas faz pesquisas simplesmente trocando o google pelo #ecosia.
Matt
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The search engine @ecosia have a survey running. They want to know how you use their search engine and how you use AI.
You can tell them what you think about both of those things here: https://feedback.surveylab.com/38a/5f0d0476/
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