Add Ecosia as secondary search engine

[diegocarloslima]

Background

As previously discussed, we'll add Ecosia as secondary search engine in ABB.

For future reference, how search engines work in Adblock Browser
​https://docs.google.com/document/d/1REO72MFtHE6mTPTdxa6J1rHQflvQwPI4NAiY6I2htIA/edit#

What to change

1) Add Ecosia to the list of installed default search engines. See attached search plugin configuration.

2) Make it available only on a few specific countries/locales:

• US (US)
• UK (GB)
• France (FR)
• Netherlands (NL)
• Germany (DE)
• Austria (AT)
• Switzerland (CH)

These markets are the markets where Ecosia has the biggest number of users, so makes sense we only show this search engine for those users.

3) Priority-wise, for the countries defined in 2), should be the following: Ecosia comes before Wikipedia and Amazon. This is because Ecosia is a general-purpose engine, unlike Wikipedia or Amazon.

Hints for testes

To verify if this is working, put the device under one of those above listed locales and go to Settings -> Search and check if Ecosia is listed as one of the Installed search engines

[abpbot]

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[tpregueiro]

Ecosia Logos

[tpregueiro]

Ecosia pixelated icon

[tpregueiro]

@diego @jens a couple of minor issues re: ecosia integration

1) I noticed the icon we're using doesn't seem to have the appropriate resolution, and appears a bit pixelated. see https://issues.adblockplus.org/attachment/ticket/5518/IMAGE%202017-10-02%2010%3A31%3A24.jpg

Ecosia has sent a zip file with more icon files so that we can pick the correct one. If we need a different specific image size pls let me know.
https://issues.adblockplus.org/attachment/ticket/5518/Logo_icon_64px%20(1).zip

2) the Ecosia team has run some test and they had the following [feedback:

We've taken a look and noticed that the installation link we sent you earlier this year has tracking we are no longer using. Below is the updated one, please could you use this one instead of the one with the ref tag: 

https://www.ecosia.org/search?tt=abp&q=<term>

Could we update the URL to the contain the latest tracking tag?

Thanks.

[diegocarloslima]

@tpregueiro:

1) I just noticed that although all other search engines .xml files specifies the icon as 16x16, the actual base64 icon is 96x96. I'll adjust Ecosia's base64.

2) I'll update the URL in the .xml file.

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[traynard]

"Priority-wise, for the countries defined in 2), should be the following: Ecosia comes before Wikipedia and Amazon."

This is not always the case. In a language where Amazon is included as a search engine (English US and UK, Deutsch), Amazon is prioritized above Ecosia. Amazon generally takes first or second position below default while Ecosia takes third or fourth.

Wikipedia's priority is shown as expected.

[traynard]

English (UK) Search Engine list

[jwangenheim]

hey tasha,

I tried to reproduce the issue but for me the search engine order is as expected for all three languages (see attached screenshots). which APK did you use for the test? I used adblockbrowser-1.3.0.20171004094541-arm-standalone-signed.apk with MD5 de3062d94564138d41a86d3fad00b28e

[traynard]

hey, I am using adblockbrowser-1.3.0-arm.apk, the latest store release posted in ABB channel. Looks like i may be on an old build :|

[traynard]

Working in the latest build.