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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What's the dirt on Waterfox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I switched to it after the Firefox debacle. Brave is my main browser and I used Firefox as an alt, but now it's just Brave and Waterfox.

It's not as heavy on the privacy protections as LibreWolf but it's nowhere near the level of site breakage that I got with LibreWolf. Plus, unlike LibreWolf whose chief maintainer is heavily political and includes those politics in what changes are pushed (another major reason I abandoned Firefox), I have yet to see any blatant political statements or actions with Waterfox.

Considering the fact that I never used Firefox for privacy so much as having an alt to keep big tech sites separate from my main traffic, it works just fine.