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Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

They block the tracking.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that had previously meant its mobile browsers and browser extensions were prevented from blocking advertising requests made by Microsoft scripts on third party sites.

Wonder how they were able to negotiate what even ecosia weren't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What does "blocked on the search engine" mean?