Frequently Asked Questions
It’s quite simple actually.
Every time you open a new tab in your Chrome browser, instead of seeing a blank space, you’ll see a beautiful background with a small ad at the bottom of the page.
This ad brings in revenue just for being visible on each new tab, which we will donate to plant trees in Madagascar.
In each tab you will see a dashboard with some statistics (how many trees you have contributed and how many trees we have planted in total), as well as some options for your account.
Basically, the tree planting gets funded by our advertising partner(s).
When you open a new tab, you will see a dashboard on the right side showing you how many trees you have helped plant.
Why Madagascar?
This beautiful country has already lost more than 90% of its original forests! It’s also home to many animal species that are nowhere else on the planet!
Why?
These are needed the most in these areas, and have many benefits:
– They provide protection for shorelines against storms, waves, and hurricanes. – They provide hotspots for many animals, like turtles, alligators, snakes, birds, and fishes. – They filter pollutants from the water and ensure healthy waters and healthy land for locals. – They capture and store a lot of CO2 from the air. Mangrove forests are known to store 2-4 more CO2 than rainforests!
And all that for free while simply opening tabs!
Short answer: no.
We generate revenue from ads that are visible, which will be used to plant the trees.
When you don’t see an ad, you probably use some kind of adblocker that blocks the ad.
Luckily it is very easy to prevent the adblocker from blocking the ad on each new tab:
ADBLOCK
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the AdBlock icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on ‘Always’.
ADBLOCK PLUS
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the AdBlock Plus icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on the big blue toggle button after ‘This website’. It should turn grey.
UBLOCK
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the uBlock icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on the big power button (it should turn from blue to white).
Yes and no.
The adblocker will prevent the ad from showing up, thus preventing us from planting trees for you.
Luckily it is very easy to prevent the adblocker from blocking the ad on each new tab, while still using AdBlocker like normal on every other site:
ADBLOCK
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the AdBlock icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on ‘Always’.
ADBLOCK PLUS
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the AdBlock Plus icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on the big blue toggle button after ‘This website’. It should turn grey.
UBLOCK
1. Go to www.treetab.co
2. Click on the uBlock icon in the top right corner of your browser
3. Click on the big power button (it should turn from blue to white).
That depends on the number of ads you allow.
By default, we show 1 ad on the bottom of the page. With this setting, it takes 100 tabs to plant 1 tree.
If you allow 2 ads on each new tab, you need 50 tabs for 1 tree.
If you allow 3 ads on each new tab, you need 33 tabs for 1 tree.
We are working hard to decrease the number of opened tabs required to plant a tree.
If you want to plant more trees, you can allow more ads (up to 3) on each tab. This can be done in the ‘Impact’ section in the menu. This will make sure you need less opened tabs to plant a tree.
Also, we will continue to find ways for you to increase your impact.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact us via hello@treetab.co
We donate a big part of the ad revenue to our official tree planting partner: Eden Reforestation Projects.
You can see our progress on our company-page on their website.
Please refer to our privacy policy page to learn more about the data we collect.
In a nutshell, your data is safe with us, and we would never sell it to any third party.