Ecosia Search Settings: Customize your search experience
Ecosia has a range of settings that can help improve your search experience. Please note that this article only covers the Ecosia search engine settings, and will not address both browser settings and Ecosia app settings.
In this article you will find:
How to access your Ecosia settings
On Desktop: Click the menu icon at the top right of the Ecosia homepage > Select Settings from the dropdown menu.
On Mobile: Conduct a search or visit ecosia.org to access the settings page. Alternatively, select Settings below the search bar. You may need to swipe slightly to the right to see it on mobile.
How to customize your Ecosia Search Settings
You can personalize your search experience by adjusting the following settings:
- Search region: Your search results come from this region
- Website language: Change the language across the Ecosia website
- Preferred search provider: Pick who should provide your results
- Safe search: Filter potentially adult content from your results
- Autosuggestion: Show suggestions under the search box as you type
- Theme: Choose between light or dark mode
- New tab: Open search results in a new tab
- Personalized search results: More relevant results based on your past search activity
- Notifications: Get notified
Dive deeper into Ecosia Search settings:
Preferred search provider
Ecosia is a multiprovider search engine. After setting your cookie preferences, you can select a preferred search provider from options such as Google or Bing. Availability may vary based on your device and browsing method.
For further details, refer to our in-depth article on Search Results on Ecosia.
Safe search
In Ecosia's settings, you can set Safe Search to either "Moderate" or "Strict" to help filter out adult content. Please note that customizable Safe Search is not available in all countries. If the option is not visible, Safe Search is automatically set to "Strict."
Personalized search results
If enabled, Bing provides results based on an anonymous identifier that improves relevance over time.
- You can disable this setting anytime via Ecosia settings or by activating Do Not Track in your browser.
- Ecosia does not permanently store IP addresses or identifiers. Bing deletes them after a specified period.
For more details, check our Privacy Policy.
How to save your Ecosia Search Settings permanently
Browser-Specific Instructions:
- Manage your cookies on Chrome
- Manage your cookies on Edge
- Manage your cookies on Firefox
- Manage your cookies on Safari
- Manage your cookies on Brave
- Manage your cookies on Vivaldi
General steps for other browsers:
Open your browser settings and navigate to cookies & history (usually found in advanced settings).
- Choose Manage Exceptions and add
https://ecosia.org. - Save changes.
- Go to Ecosia settings via the menu icon and select your preferences.
- Click Save to store your settings permanently.