[qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Matt]

I count among those who are happy to see money in opensource projects.
It might raise tricky governance problem at times but in this case it
seems ok. I suppose some of the money (5-25% depending on qutebrowser
coding workload is handled) could be redistributed as bug bounties so
that other regular contributors can benefit from it.

2016-07-26 17:35 GMT+02:00 benh <ben.hengst at gmail.com>:
> +1 for set default to what ever Florian wants and we can change as needed
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:21 AM Brent Moran <blm at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> Set any defaults you like; your user base is plenty competent to change
>> them (and will probably stay that way, given the nature of the browser
>> :) ).  Of course, that may mean the income from setting such a default
>> will be severely diminished.  I guess if no one uses it, you can always
>> change it back (or to something else) later.
>>
>> Brent
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I got contacted by the Ecosia search engine a few days ago:
>> > https://www.ecosia.org/
>> >
>> > They seem to get their results via Bing mostly (DuckDuckGo gets them
>> > from Yahoo and in some regions Yandex/Bing) and apparently use (part
>> > of) their ad income to plant trees:
>> > https://info.ecosia.org/what
>> >
>> > I was asked whether I was interested in using it as a default search
>> > engine for qutebrowser (instead of duckduckgo), and I'd get half of
>> > the ad income generated by qutebrowser searches in return. They claim
>> > this is about 2000 EUR per month for a partner of similar size -
>> > though I'm currently asking for clarification as I'm not sure their
>> > predictions about qutebrowser users are accurate ;)
>> >
>> > I'd like to hear some more opinions about this - if there's really
>> > some four-figure income associated with this I could probably continue
>> > working part-time on qutebrowser after my study (i.e. in about three
>> > years) which would be a nice thing and help qutebrowser a lot.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, while Ecosia seems quite cool, it seems to lack
>> > some functionality (like instant answers) compared to duckduckgo.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Florian
>> >
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