What's the dirt on Waterfox?
What's the dirt on Waterfox?
I'm aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it's now an independent project.
just ignore it.
use librewolf, mullvad, or tor browser.
I’m wondering if I should use it as well. I know LibreWolf isn’t for me
I use it for everyday things like schoolwork and gmail and it works great so far. I still have Librewolf on the side but it seems like it's for more privacy and that you're not supposed to change it too much for example adding more extensions or it defeats the purpose of it.
Yea, it feels like the tor browser of clear web
Yeah Tuff, give me some fresh dirt.
dirt on water? mud?
MudFox?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure System1 divested themselves of it.
They still own Startpage and Startmail, though.
phew and thats how i accidentally discovered just now about Startpage being owned by a marketing company, somehow i missed that news
From Wikipedia
In October 2019, Startpage received a significant investment from Privacy One Group, a subsidiary of System1.
i guess now i will have to pivot search to somewhere else, i went from DuckDuckGo to Startpage years ago now i will look around for something else
Wasn't the whole reason to use Waterfox because Firefox didn't support 64x at the time? It supports it now, so why would you still use Waterfox?
It got a big boost when Mozilla updated their ToS a couple months ago to say they could use your browser data to train their AI.
Well, it's not that they said they would, it's that they updated their terms so that they could if they wanted to. For some (myself included) that was enough.
Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it's better for the normal user
I have found that Waterfox is slightly, slightly faster on both Windows and Android and am loving it so far.