Is Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees safe?
Sets web searching to Ecosia so everyday searches help fund tree planting and climate action.
This extension lets you search the web with Ecosia, a search engine that uses its profits to fund climate action, including tree planting projects. The store description says searches are encrypted and that Ecosia collects only what is needed to deliver search results.
Who publishes itEcosia GmbH - no other listings under this identity
Ecosia GmbH - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 7.5.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on ecosia.org
*://*.ecosia.org/*
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- Ecosia
Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees sends data to Ecosia. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.