Ecosia Browser
Ecosia Browser is the newest product from Ecosia an eco-friendly, fast, ad-free browsing experience that supports reforestation.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Customizable
Features
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Block Trackers
- Picture in Picture
- Support for Gestures
- Ad-free
Tags
- green-tech
- climate
- climate-change
- private-browsing
- climatetech
Ecosia Browser News & Activities
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What is Ecosia Browser?
Ecosia Browser is the newest product from 
Ecosia an eco-friendly, fast, ad-free browsing experience that supports reforestation.
The Ecosia Browser is a sustainable alternative to traditional web browsers, designed with environmental conservation in mind. Enjoy up to three times faster web page loading with an inbuilt ad-blocker for a smoother browsing experience.
Support Reforestation: Your searches help fund global tree-plantation projects, as Ecosia allocates ad revenue to environmental sustainability efforts.
Customizable & Solar-Powered: Personalize your browser with features like dark mode, home page customization, and solar-powered operation for a greener digital footprint.
Ecosia Browser information
Developed by
Ecosia GmbH Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
80 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
It's not really a private search engine, and its a proprietary browser: https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
The search is fine if you support planting trees. There is nothing wrong with that, I think it's good.
However, claiming to be a privacy browser when your privacy policy shows anything but that is deceptive.
And it's proprietary, we have no idea what's going on in the back. As others here have said, it already partners and shares data with Google and Microsoft, some of the big no-nos in the privacy field.
Think of this as a cute little green overlay for Google Chrome.
And if Manifest V3 comes along in a couple months as predicted, then this won't be much of a green browser anymore compared to alternatives that can use extensions like uBlock Origins (sans lite).
I like the search engine, but this is just another Chromium skin. It doesn't seem to add much to the basic browser except setting Ecosia as the default. At least it's not bloated.
Just like Brave Browser, it can be installed through an online installer only. Never trust online installers. And always use Total Uninstall or similar to monitor what any installer is putting on your disks.
Just like the search engine, it isn't really private, also, it is proprietary, a 1 to 1, reskinned chromium build with Ecosia search as its default engine. There is no reason to use a whole new browser just to do the same thing as using Ecosia in any other browser.
Ecosia Browser is based on code from Chromium, an open-source project belonging to Google. This means that Ecosia Browser will have to enact Manifest 3.0 in June. Manifest 3.0 is Google's newest weapon against ad-blockers and privacy add-ons. It simply forbids them on any Chromium-based browser, as far as we know. Since Ecosia Browser is based on Chromium, I can't see how it will retain its built-in ad-blocking feature past June-- or perhaps it will only block ads that aren't from Google?
Either way, it is rather disingenuous to present itself as an "alternative to Big Tech" when it is based on Google's work.
The "alternative that is partnered with Google & Microsoft, aka "clowny"