My 2¢: I say let Mozilla stick to their core purpose (develop Gecko and Firefox) and leave the "virtue signaling" to other companies that feel the need to do that. Firefox is already marketed as the most privacy-oriented browser available. Given what you read every day, users are apparently leaving Firefox in droves, partly because Mozilla's attention is focused elsewhere in less-than-technological subjects. And remember: until 2007 Mozilla used to develop in-house Thunderbird, a still-excellent email app. Why would they take on an email service a la GMail now?
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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"Use our service because we plant trees!" is really just marketing bullshit. They're not saving the environment, they're running a monoculture tree farm which creates long term profit.
Saying that though I switched to Ecosia from DDG because it just formats the results better imo. It would be nice if Firefox at least included it in the default search engine list so you didn't have to hunt around to add it.
They’re not saving the environment, they’re running a monoculture tree farm
Nope.
https://blog.ecosia.org/everyone-getting-tree-planting-wrong/
https://www.ecosia.org/#our_tree_planting_approach
https://blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how-does-ecosia-plant-trees/
https://ecosia.co/finreportsen
Instead of monocultures, we grow over 500 different native species where they are needed most. Always shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.
That's a pleasant surprise. I'll still hold a little cynacism out of caution, but it sounds much better than most.
@TWeaK maybe. But from all the updates they give and videos they post on youtube, it seems that they plant native hardy trees especially those that help local communities. Would like it if someone from near their plantation site can confirm.