Lessons in social entrepreneurship from Vivaldi browser's friends at Ecosia
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Most funders won’t invest in a business if it plans to give away 80% of the money to plant trees. In spite of this, Christian Kroll, founder of our search partner Ecosia, managed to build a successful company. Here’s how.
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’You must really like Unicode
Edit: oh, and please don’t use
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For the same reason music pop stars ads for coca cola, not orange juice:(
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@Gwen-Dragon I don’t care about semantics but about font size. There’s many other ways how to differentiate Q/A.
See:
If I wrote everything using huge text like this, would it be easy to read? Especially when it’s looooong enough to span multiple lines? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodoconsequat.
Also note this is smaller than on the blog.
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@potmeklecbohdan: Our h2 is a bit big. We need to look into the style of it.
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@Gwen-Dragon Or just:
Question?
Answer.
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@potmeklecbohdan: Check again. The h2 is gone. Hope it reads better now. Never let formatting stand in the way of a good story, right? 😜
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@OlgaA It’s much better now, thanks!
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Thanks for the very interesting read!
I still have Ecosia set as my default search provider in Vivaldi since it was the default back when I installed it. It works good enough that I can usually find what I need without going to the G for the larger index. I wish they'd add a dark theme, then it would be just perfect
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I think the project makes sense, but it just isn’t for me. I don’t need a middle man who takes a cut of the money to donate to certain projects, which again need a cut of the money to finally do something.
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What operating systems do they run in their offices?
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This is really informative. Glad to see an insight into how these kinds of non-profit organizations work. Thank you!
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@pathduck @justanothermalaysian If you liked ecosia you might also like using refoorest.com/en which is a web plugin you can add to your web browser (google, bing, ecosia...) it lets you plant a tree every time you visit one of their partners’ website and it’s totally free 😊
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@samirf said in Lessons in social entrepreneurship from Vivaldi browser's friends at Ecosia:
add to your web browser (google, bing, ecosia...)
Google, Bing, and Ecosia are search-engines, not web browsers. Vivaldi, Firefox, and Chrome are web browsers.
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@luetage Why? I get what mindset when it comes to donating your money. Because you can just give your money to another charity, that won't have as many middlemen skimming off the top.
But we're not talking about you giving your money, we're talking about you doing searches. So, unless you know of another chartable search-engine with fewer middlemen, what's the point of not using Ecosia?
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@eggcorn Ah yes thank you.
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@eggcorn You cannot force people to use this system. I’d rather give my own money to the charity of my choice, than use Ecosia with ads. Which brings me to another point of interest: I wonder how many people are using Ecosia in Vivaldi with either Vivaldi’s internal, or a third party adblocker, turned on. Which does neither help Ecosia nor these users.
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@luetage I agree, Donating to charity of choice is far better than having others decide where you donate
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@luetage said in Lessons in social entrepreneurship from Vivaldi browser's friends at Ecosia:
You cannot force people to use this system.
Never said I could. I don't use it myself. Partly because there are other search-engines I prefer. And partly because I'm suspicious when Westerners go abroad to (in Ecosia's words) "empower communities".
I’d rather give my own money to the charity of my choice, than use Ecosia with ads.
It's not a choice between the two. But if it's ads you don't like, I'm not normally a fan of online ads. But the ads on Ecosia seem alright:
Which brings me to another point of interest: I wonder how many people are using Ecosia in Vivaldi with either Vivaldi’s internal, or a third party adblocker, turned on. Which does neither help Ecosia nor these users.
As for the Vivaldi ad-blocker: That's only if you disable "Allow ads from our partners (support Vivaldi)" (under "Manage sources" in the "Tracker and ad blocking" settings).
For 3rd party ad-blockers: I get the impression that a lot of them are designed to allow search-engine ads by default, seeing as search-engine ads tend to be unintrusive and useful.
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@eggcorn Then start using it. Don’t talk other people into it and don’t use it yourself. I don’t know what’s your deal, or your mission. This discussion is completely pointless.
