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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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.