Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising
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Ecosia adds "contractually forced" Microsoft Clarity tracking (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/setup-and-installation/about-clarity | privacy faq : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more.
They will also add an optional Google setting. Enabling the cookie will allow to get search results from Google, but also to get tracked by Google.
Optional Microsoft advertising tracking is still a thing, tho it may not be necessary if Bing can get a fingerprint and behaviour of the user in real time...
This may be the final flow for Ecosia for me. Unless somehow the Microsoft Clarity can be private... But I don't think so.
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aren't they using bing also? (I never checked, and still not going to check right now... because I'm .......)
I'm using duckduckgo but how would they avoid this if Microsoft make it mandatory by contract?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
They block the tracking.
Wonder how they were able to negotiate what even ecosia weren't.
I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.
That doesn't seem to mention Microsoft Clarity, other than it being on the list of domains that its ad blocker (not its search engine) blocks?
Clarity.ms is on the list of blocked domains, I believe these are also blocked on the search engine.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/no-tracking/
What does "blocked on the search engine" mean?
According to them DuckDuckGo largely sources Bing, however they also have their own crawler called DuckDuckBot.