The Green Web The Green Web

Social & Communication
Version: 2.3.0
Last Update: 2020-07-17

User Reviews


avatar Thibault Menz
2021-09-02

N'a pas l'air de fonctionner sur mon PC portable. Je n'ai tout simplement pas de pastille qui s'affiche devant mes résultats de recherche

avatar AngieMel Ruiz
2019-08-23

There's no information on the criteria on which it draws its conclusion. Read Nichol Brummer's review, I completely agree with it. We don't know if it's even neutral or something, google and facebook green but not ecosia search? Right...
Also, you only have "green" sites, but no way of knowing if a certain site is gray because they have no data on it or because it's actually "not green". Meh. No way of knowing if this thing is accurate.

avatar Kim Jong-un
2019-07-27

l'ecologie est très importante

avatar Alexandr Tęgrăma
2019-06-30

If you want to have a green smiley, your host must be registered in their own database: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory/

avatar Stijn de Haan
2019-03-22

Try to only use the websites that are hosted green. I had the idea to make such an extension myself but discovered it already existed! I've also done a bit research on what websites are hosted green but I don't understand why for example Facebook is hosted green. Yes, they're building all their new servers with renewable energy but seeing online they will be fully renewable around 2021 which is awesome. Does this extension look to what servers it's connected to see if that specific server is hosted green, when is a website hosted green to you?

avatar Vladimir B.
2016-11-11

Этот ужасный ,глупый значок.. ну да ладно уже.. не в этом суть.. а суть в том ,что очень часто этот плагин "улыбается" на сайтах ,часто распространяющих вредоносное ПО,а в остальном ,значок везде"недоволен",пользы от этого плагина практически никакой и единицу я не поставил только потому ,что замысел не плохой и нужный,но в остальном ещё очень и очень далеко.. удаляю конечно же..

avatar Nichol Brummer
2016-02-27

I love the idea of showing which links point to a 'green' site. But I'm not at all satisfied that thegreenwebfoundation.org does not really define what is meant by 'green'. What are the criteria? Is it enough to simply 'compensate' CO2 emissions by buying e.g. completely underpriced EU ETS allowances?

Furthermore, I'm not even convinced that is fair, or that it even makes much sense to only classify sites as 'green' or 'grey', without any possibilities inbetween. Any proper classification should incorporate enough detail to classify sites on a scale from 0 to 10, or 0 to 100.

But this quickly gets complicated. For example: a site with simple html pages without much graphics and video could simply run with fewer servers and need less energy.

So I'm installing this to enjoy the cool effects in my browser. But for now I'm assigning it just 1 star, because I really don't know how much I can trust this information.

avatar Sicco van Sas
2012-03-21

Great add-on! It is now easy to see if certain green-related sites walk the talk and gives a little bit more credit to the sites that took the effort to be green.

avatar Thibault Menz
2021-09-02

N'a pas l'air de fonctionner sur mon PC portable. Je n'ai tout simplement pas de pastille qui s'affiche devant mes résultats de recherche

avatar AngieMel Ruiz
2019-08-23

There's no information on the criteria on which it draws its conclusion. Read Nichol Brummer's review, I completely agree with it. We don't know if it's even neutral or something, google and facebook green but not ecosia search? Right...
Also, you only have "green" sites, but no way of knowing if a certain site is gray because they have no data on it or because it's actually "not green". Meh. No way of knowing if this thing is accurate.

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