Tero - Save trees by browsing online

#4.59 / 81 rate

Tero - Save trees by browsing online

10,000 users

2022-09-16

https://jointero.org

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Description

Tero turns your browser into a force of positive change and lets you fight climate change simply by browsing online.

➤ Key features

✓ Save trees when you open a tab, browse, or shop online
✓ Reduce your carbon footprint by blocking unwanted ads
✓ Private and secure
✓ Customizations and beautiful background photos on your new-tab page
✓ Shortcuts to your favourite websites and apps
✓ News, updates, and notifications
✓ Custom search engines
✓ Manage your extensions from a simple and intuitive popup
✓ Keep track of your impact with our tree counters

➤ Your privacy and trust matters

We're interested in making an impact, not in your data. We are committed to protecting your privacy and using your data responsibly. The ads on our extension are delivered by our advertising partners, who may collect anonymized data in order to show you ads you'll be interested in.

We don't track the websites you visit or the content you view online. What you do online is you business and yours alone. Our extension's permissions allow us to replace ads online and detect if the website you are on is one of our partners.

➤ We don’t plant trees

☆ "Planting trees is good. Saving existing forests is better." - Rainforest Trust ☆

We made an active decision to save existing trees rather than plant new ones because compelling studies show that planting trees won’t be enough to tackle climate change and that efforts on rainforest conservation lead to a more sustainable and lasting change.

Here are three facts you might not know:

✓ Forest conservation needs 30x less land to have the same climate mitigation outcome as planting trees.
✓ Forest protection efforts help protect the natural habitat of thousands of species and local communities that depend on natural resources.
✓ Forest conservation typically costs half as much as forest restoration efforts.

➤ Tero vs. alternatives

☆ Ecosia ☆
We love Ecosia! Although many people think we are competitors, we are actually not. We recommend you use Ecosia’s search engine with the Tero extension to maximise your impact.

☆ OceanHero ☆
Like Ecosia, OceanHero is a search engine that can also be used in Tero. It's a great combo to save both rainforests and oceans!

☆ Tab for a Cause ☆
They are a great option if you want to support numerous charities, but they're only a new-tab page with limited functionalities.

➤ Learn more

About: https://www.jointero.org
Blog: https://blog.jointero.org
FAQs: https://blog.jointero.org/faq
Privacy: https://blog.jointero.org/privacy

Join us in Building a Greener Internet!

Note: After installing, click the ‘Keep it’ button on the ‘Change back to Google’ notification. This will show Tero on each new tab as intended, and ensure the extension isn't disabled.

Reviews

Dikran Helen
Dikran Helen

AJ Beandip
AJ Beandip

I'd been using OpenTabs for at least a year when they announced their rebranding and expansion as Tero. Since then, I've seen their company: -Remove their formerly-public financial reports from their site (and trust me, I searched high and low for recent ones); -Reduce their contact methods to Discord and Instagram only (which is great, because I don't like or use either platform); -Implement a flawed and confusing sponsor program that supposedly funds tree preservation with visits to partner sites, without publishing a current list of partners or criteria for joining the sponsorship program; -Regularly remove or reinstate sponsors without warning at random intervals, even if those sponsors were listed on the new tab page on the same day they were suspended from the program; -Fail to fix their coding so that ads on new tabs don't force the whole browser to a screeching halt (this is why I keep adblock active on Tero pages, even on a high-end PC); -Suggest new features that remain perpetually on the horizon, like some kind of digital mirage; and -Trim away at their knowledgebase to cover only the most basic questions (bring back your Notion, jerks!). And as the cherry on top, their so-called blog hasn't seen new posts since 2023 at the latest. There are no in-app or blog updates for any of their extensions (Tabs, Ads, Cash which is probably vaporware at this point), and they still haven't offered a public postmortem for the quiet shutdown of OpenTabs Games and Surveys. Tero might have dragged Tab for a Cause for high expenses and low donations, but at least Team Gladly releases occasional feature updates and regular quarterly reports. If the devs are reading this at all, I have one message for you: Be transparent like you promised. Oh, and explain why sites like Walmart are allowed to join your sponsorship program to greenwash their own footprint.

Muskan Aggarwal
Muskan Aggarwal

I've been using this for a long time but all of sudden its not working. When I open a new tab it flashes up and then disappears, please fix this I love Tero but i hate opening a blank screen

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