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It is a scam if you make claims that "every search plants a tree"

they are not "clear about that". I can see they removed it now but for the longest time the main page had a banner saying "every search plants a tree" and also an actual counter which went up by one every time you made a search -- which was misleading, because it wasn't every "search", because you would have to click on an ad, and it wasn't "every", because it took several clicks on an ad to actually contribute an equivalent of a tree

their own blog

clicks on ads

This is a necessary reminder that Ecosia is a scam:

• they don't "plant trees" but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes
• "Every search plants a tree" is a lie. It's not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad
• They use Bing results making them useless

If you're using Ecosia with an adblocker or knowingly skip over sponsored results then you are NOT in any way contributing to the tree-planting

Kinda. They could suspend warranty if you don't use the vehicle as intended.

And the same should apply to mobile devices: lock me out of your ecosystem, deny updates, suspend warranty, I don't care but simply let me root, unlock bootloader, sideload, jailbreak and all that nice stuff.

The battery is not the main point of failure in contemporary phones, especially not one that makes you buy new unit. This new radioactive battery doesn't change much

And alternativeto.net is the place to find them alternatives

Transmission afaik does not have a built-in search functionality with plugins for popular trackers

The "u" in uTorrent is actually [greek letter mu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)), which as a SI suffix is pronounced "micro" and means one millionth (10^-6)

well, I see. thankfully there's loads and loads and loads of alternatives over on XDA still in development