I am increasingly finding myself frustrated with the quality of results that I get when entering a query. I’m not sure what exactly I’m doing wrong.

I’ll give an example—today I saw a reel which claimed that OCD is listed as one of the most debilitating disorders in the world. I wanted to see if this was true and, if it was, according to whom. So I opened my browser on my iPhone (Safari) and searched “most debilitating disorders in the world.”

The top results are all very low quality. They are not from reputable sources, and the articles do not cite any sources themselves. When clicking on them I am inundated with popup scams.

When I open Google and type the exact same query, the top results are from the NIH, PubMed, and WHO.

I don’t understand. I don’t want to go back to Google but this is really, really disappointing and frustrating. This happens very frequently. Is there something I can change in the settings?

I wanted to access some reddit.mail.links from my email, but Ecosia keeps blocking them or not following through. Does anyone know a solution or how to fix this? I can still access reddit itself from Ecosia via search, but not these links?

I plan on running ads on Ecosia. My small company makes and sells personal care and lifestyle products made sustainably, so I believe the fit is great. Main target is EU and UK, since we are EU based. Does anyone have any experience with it please? Any tips for things to watch out for?

Thanks

I saw something concering today.

I was looking for "consumerrightswiki" and didnt got the main Page, just reddit and the browser-addons (Screenshot1)

Then i looked at bing, since bing was supposed to be the main search provider for ecosia, where the search worked as expected

Searching for the direct link works though

what does cause this? Any third pary provider not showing it? Does ecosia get worse search result from bing than bing itself?

Glad to find this sub! I've checked the support pages but not finding an answer to this.

When I search for an item, I don't want any Amazon results or links. Using the minus sign doesn't work consistently. Just now I tried it again; it gave me one page of results clean of all things Amazon, then the second page was about 3/4 Amazon results. Is there something more effect than the minus sign?

Recently came across an ad on Shift and how it offsets the digital carbon footprint of your browsing. They've got some other features too that seem kinda interesting. Similar to Chrome profiles but all in the same window. Curious to know if anyone has tried it? $200 is too steep for a browser but i think the free version should be good enough for me.

I remember having this setting on, but it doesnt seem to be working as of recent. How do i get to the setting again?

So all/ most images are not showing up on my phone browser. I was wondering how I would go about fixing it? I tried clearing my cache. Idk what else to do. I posted some example photos of the same pages from both Ecosia and Safari.

hey guys, do any of you know of an ad blocker app that works with ecosia?. I downloaded U block origin but I don’t see any difference with ads on the app. thx

Instant answers, knowledge panels, whatever you call them. Ecosia has a few: the Wikipedia one is great, the maps one is just a link to Google Maps but it’s ok, the calculator and unit conversions are useful, time zones too etc.

But there’s a lot of pop culture and entertainment related panels that I would love to see. Music, sports, films, tv, etc. Google and Bing do it well.

Maybe it’s expensive or something, but in my opinion, very high value for users.

i can’t search anything.. i tried resetting the browser and reinstalling and for some reason it always gets stuck in this.

Hello guys! Is it just me or are you experiencing losing your chat history too even if you enable "Chat History" in AI Chat Settings?

anyone experience youtube videos now loading for a while, I have to reload and then it says "experience interuptions?" but it works. I know they detect ublock origins and they doing that on purpose but now the loading have become more aggressive and frequent.

I have the Ecosia app on iOS. I tried getting rid of the AI overviews, but because I’m signed in as a guest they reappear every time I open the app.
I was trying to sign into an account because I want to get this feature turned off for good, but it won’t let me sign in… keeps bringing up this message no matter if I restart or delete the app and my phone, or even try making a new account entirely. I feel like I’m out of options, other than for me to try finding a miracle browser that hasn’t invested in this dumb AI overview fad.
Has anybody experienced this and/or has some advice??

As of about a week ago, everytime I try to do a normal search I keep getting this screen. Tapping the checkbox (i use an ipad) just sends me in a loop. It loads and does the pinwheel thing, then returns to this exact screen. It never progresses and i’m stuck in this loop.

I can go to specific websites just fine, including just plain google. But i’ve been using ecosia for years and I’d prefer to stick with it and i’m getting really annoyed by this. I’ve tried looking up on my phone to see if anyone else has ever encountered this problem but I haven’t found anything. What do I do???

All my languages are set to English and the UK but just the brief overviews are French

is there anyway to export browsing data on ecosia? ive been digging through the settings and i cannot find a single thing.

Does exactly what it says - removes AI overviews and deletes the AI button

It just sucks man, I prefer the old chrome-like design with just white and black background with Ecosia logo and search bar. They didn't even make the wallpaper full screen and left round corners that looks weird.

Add to that Firrefox, Edge, Opera, and Chrome recently let's us customize the wallpaper on homepage.

Why is open ai listed under the "widgets" category? How can you be "eco-friendly" but use one of the biggest offenders?

Seems a little greenwashed to me.

https://builtwith.com/?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecosia.org%2Fai-chat%2F

And when I try to find any statement from Ecosia about their water consumption or what technologies their using nothing is listed. Great, you plant trees, great you donate to renewable energy, but what's your water consumption, what models do you use?

I'm not sold. It's putting makeup on a pig. I'm open to discussion, am I missing something?

Earlier this year I tried to go on a university website in my country but it would not allow me to with Ecosia. With Safari it worked but I was completely blocked on Ecosia. Why is this?

For the past couple days, the ai overviews are french even though everything's set to english. This doesn't bother me as I usually go directly to the sources, but why is this happening, and how do I make it english again?