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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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Don't see many mentions to Waterfox? (www.waterfox.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

Worthwile blogpost on their independence and future updates: https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-in-2023/
Project: https://www.waterfox.net
Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.waterfox.waterfox

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Firefox is 64-bit now, so there is no point in Waterfox.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

You clearly have not used Waterfox recently

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Waterfox started out as a 64-bit fork, but then transitioned to being Firefox with a few different default settings for better privacy. Then Waterfox got sold to an ad company. Then last year, the solo dev bought it back. It's a bit of a weird history.

Like, ultimately I agree that there's not much of a point to it. It's better to configure Firefox. But it is not anymore just about the 64-bit build.