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Waterfox still downloads and installs quickly. As such, because of this association, it appeared the greater privacy community (and myself included) lost trust in Waterfox - or confidence was shaken up enough not to widely recommend it over other privacy-oriented browsers. At the time it seemed deliver on its promises of an optimized and more private experience for users, despite its association with System1.Īs noted later in the review, System1 had never (overtly) did anything to be labeled as “untrustworthy,” but suspicions persisted because of its analytics/advertising connections. This association with System1 was the primary con associated with Waterfox Waterfox had been partnered with System1 for roughly 1 year when the initial post was published. For the unaware, System1 had invested in Waterfox in late 2019, and while they did nothing explicitly violating user privacy, their “backing” of Waterfox wasn’t well-received by many (including myself in the initial version of this review) Waterfox is independentĪs of July 2023, Waterfox announced it has returned to its former status as an independent project - presumably, shedding their association with System1. Most notably, Waterfox has returned to its previous independent status and has streamlined its lineup.

Waterfox has changed some since publishing this post.

Nonexistent mobile support (this may be a con for some people).

Still needs about:config tweaks found in Mozilla Firefox to be a more 'true' privacy browser.

Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage.

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