Waterfox (Firefox-Based Browser)

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Short description

Waterfox is a free and open-source web browser and fork of Firefox. It claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy.

Why I think this tool should be added

To discuss the differences regarding privacy between Firefox forks

Section on Privacy Guides

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It has been discussed previously, essentially though all these downstream forks rely on Firefox anyway, often lag upstgream releases.

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uBO by default enabled like Mullvad and Helium would have also been a great choice.

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I’m against ads and find them annoying, so I’m uninstalling the browser.

Do you exclusively use Startpage for search? It’s the only search engine for which Waterfox will whitelist ads due to their partnership. Not ideal but it won’t be all ads.

Hello. No. I use various search engines depending on the situation. Censorship has increased and makes it difficult to find what you’re looking for, but there are still several useful tools available for searching.