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

It shares your IP address with Bing, and it does not use any proxy to get the result from Bing.

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

Any sources please?

I have this https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/377-ip-addresses

When communicating your searches to Bing to provide you with results, we never communicate your IP address together with your search queries.

And this : https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

For example, when searching for “tree” on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address (to a separate fraud detection server, so your search term and IP address are never sent to the same server), meta-data on your device that is necessary for the result like screen size, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.

If you choose to enable “personalised search”, Ecosia sets a Bing-specific “customer ID” parameter to improve the quality of your search results. You can also choose to enable this feature by modifying your user settings.

The search request and IP are sent to separate servers and with different goals.

Mot likely the IP is sent to Bing to detect if it's bot. That way Ecosia can know when to send a captcha.

And the search request is sent by Ecosia without the IP or identifying informations.

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

As it says also in your quote, they just don't share IP and search term together. More detailed description from https://www.ecosia.org/privacy under "What data do you share with search results providers?".

For example, when searching for “tree” on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address (to a separate fraud detection server, so your search term and IP address are never sent to the same server), meta-data on your device that is necessary for the result like screen size, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.

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

so the ip and the search are still both sent to microsoft?

just because they aren't sent to the 'same server' doesn't mean that microsoft can't reassemble the data.

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

Yeah, just got there as I am doing things in the meantime.

Would the IP address and search results be able to be put back together? Wouldn't a lot of IP Adresses be sent at the same time reducing the possibility of linking an ip address to a search result?