Fast and Private Web Browser
www.waterfox.net
Waterfox is the privacy-focused web browser engineered to give you speed, control, and peace of mind on the internet.

Waterfox is a browser, obviously based on Firefox, but without default “junk” that Firefox comes with.

Don’t see many mentions to Waterfox at all in this community? Are there any specific reasons for it? Seems like a neat version of Firefox, with development based out of the UK.

Project: https://www.waterfox.net Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.waterfox.waterfox

    • banazir@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      They were, but as I understand they are once again independent. I’d still rather stick with Librewolf, but I’m glad there’s options.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        If Mozilla is an ad company, where are their ad revenue stats, like Apple, Google, Amazon and others? Lemmy is acting like a mirror of Reddit, except that both extremes are illogical at many times. Only geopolitical arguments make sense here, I think.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Don’t discuss Geopolitics on Lemmy. It is a bad idea

          Mozilla makes money from Firefox pocket and the sponsored part if the Firefox home screen. You can turn those off but it is still advertising

          • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            Why is geopolitics bad on Lemmy? You have NATO and Israel preferences?

            I do not consider Pocket as evidence of Mozilla being an “advertisement company”. Have you ever donated even a penny to Mozilla at any point in time? Have you offered them a sustainable way to make money, instead of shitting on anything they need to resort to?

            • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Mozilla non profit and Mozilla company are different entities.

              Also Lemmy tends to be extreme left and pro China and Russia. I don’t really like discussing politics on social media anyway so I tend to just ignore it.

              • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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                6 months ago

                Mozilla non profit and Mozilla company are different entities.

                Both are intertwined.

                Lemmy tends to be extreme left and pro China and Russia.

                Based? I see all western platforms cheering the genocide of Palestinian Jews and Muslims right now. These were the same platforms lying about Uyghur Muslim genocide a few years ago. Lemmy actually looks like a sensible geopolitical place.

                • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  I just think the issues are often more complex than people see. People put up there blinders and refuse to see anything that might make them question there own views.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            6 months ago

            Maybe but it’s a far cry from Mozilla being an advertising company.

            They aren’t even remotely close to companies like Google.

      • IDew@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        All big tech is. They got big for a reason. Though I find Mozilla much less of a thread than other corps like Google, Meta, Microsoft. Meta I find easy to block as none of their services are actually useful. Google is a tad bit harder, and Microshit creeps in on every spot and I don’t like it.