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Fair warning. But wasn't Waterfox sold to System1 - "an advertising company that tries to "make advertising better and safer, while respecting consumer privacy"
by webmobdev 3y ago
Fair warning. But wasn't Waterfox sold to System1 - "an advertising company that tries to "make advertising better and safer, while respecting consumer privacy" - https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/14/waterfox-web-browser-sold-to-system1/ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/14/waterfox-web-browser-sold-... ? I'd feel a lot safer to use a browser that is not owned by an ad company ...
- MrAlex94 3y agoWaterfox is independent again: https://www.waterfox.net/en-US/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/ https://www.waterfox.net/en-US/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterf... And System1 are an “ad-tech” company but the term should be used loosely. The ownership made sense as they are a search engine aggregator and they own a bunch of old school search engines like DogPile, InfoSpace etc. Nothing to do with what people associate ad-tech with, i.e. tracking you across the web or collecting personal data.