Unblock Ecosia ads
Good day everybody, I am new to Firefox. I have MacBookAir 11. I added the Ecosia extension since it's my main search engine. I noticed there aren't ads popping up for Ecosia. That is how Ecosia makes money for it's sustainability projects, so, as nice as it is to not see ads, I would like them to show up for my Ecosia searches. I understand you can make an Enhanced Tracking Protection exception (and I did), but where can I find a place to make exceptions for whatever AdBlock software came already integrated to Firefox? I am liking Firefox so far. Thank you everybody. Miran.
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Hi Miran,
You can do so by going to about:preferences -> Privacy and security -> click on the Advanced setting under the Enhanced Tracking Protection section, and then click on Manage Exceptions.
From there, you can add the website address and click on Add exception. To learn more about ETP exception, you may want to check out the following article Manage Enhanced Tracking Protection exceptions.
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Hi Kiki, Thank you for the reply. I apologize for the late confirmation.
The issue seems to have resolved itself, either due to Firefox or Ecosia or my computer updating. Otherwise, the "https://ecosia.org" in the Enhanced Protection exceptions finally kicked in, months later.
I will view the article should the issue arise again.
Still, I would like to add something should other Ecosia users experience a similar issue.
Today, I came to change my homepage to "https://www.ecosia.org/?_sp=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" in hopes that it would resemble that of Chrome. Before, I tried many 'ecosia.org' variations for both homepage and Enhanced Protection exceptions, but no variation felt familiar enough or brought back ads. I stumbled upon this long address and tried it. It works. The homepage becomes a landing page for new Ecosia users, but you can type your queries into the middle and it looks similar. Making 'ecosia.org' your homepage now leads to the same thing. It lacks some features of the homepage and new tab page of the Ecosia extension on Chrome 138 ("chrome://newtab/"). When searching with Ecosia as a default homepage, both on new tabs and homepage searches, I noticed ads appear. To compare with before, I asked leading questions (likely to elicit an ad) and the ads seem to work as usual now.
However, when I switched my homepage to the Firefox default, I noticed that searching leading questions did not produce ads. This may be a coincidence, but upon making Ecosia the homepage again, the ads are back.
In short, if you want to use Ecosia with ads, try changing your homepage along with the Enhanced Protection exception.
Have a good one. Miran.
Aha, thanks for sharing what works for you!
I used Ecosia in the past, and I thought it was a great product. I also think it's really thoughtful that you're willing to unblock ads to support organizations you care about.