Waterfox is a fork of Firefox and is British-owned

Waterfox is the privacy-focused web browser engineered to give you speed, control, and peace of mind on the internet.

The browser disables firefox telemetry and Pocket by default.

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Using a browser made in a country that mandates putting in a backdoor in encryption for all users world wide? Yeah.... Pass.
- Don't worry, a lot of waterfox was developed by an american advertising company
  
  That's disinformation. They hired the waterfox guy a few years ago but mostly left him alone.
Other alternatives: LibreWolf, Floorp, FireDragon
- Firedragon is great. Have been running Garuda Hyprland for a few weeks now (btw).
  
  For the ppl that don't know Firedragon is Floorp that mirrors LibreWolf configs. So hardened Floorp.
- And https://zen-browser.app/
support Brexit with every click!
- Does the company support Brexit?
eh. FOSS has no borders, it doesnt matter.
It's controlled monetarily by startpage which some people object to.
Long time Firefox user, but I’ve been considering trying Waterfox or Librewolf.

Any reason they would be better than FF running Ublock?
- Both Librewolf and Waterfox are harden forks of Firefox without the telemetry. Yes Ublock would work.
  
  Sounds like Librewolf is going to be downloaded and set up to give it a try tonight.

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