I’m aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it’s now an independent project.
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Presumably, there would be no dirt, since water cleans dirt off of foxes.
That’s pretty much it afaik. Owner sold it, new owner didn’t know what to do with it, owner bought it back.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure System1 divested themselves of it.
They still own Startpage and Startmail, though.
phew and thats how i accidentally discovered just now about Startpage being owned by a marketing company, somehow i missed that news
From Wikipedia
In October 2019, Startpage received a significant investment from Privacy One Group, a subsidiary of System1.
i guess now i will have to pivot search to somewhere else, i went from DuckDuckGo to Startpage years ago now i will look around for something else
I use SearXNG. I would highly recommend.
thanks, i heard and tried it already many times but:
- I need to self-host (fine for doing it locally but im wary of opening it to access outside the network and be open to external threats since i wouldnt know how to properly handle that so i went for trying to selfhost 4get for being more lightweight)
- find a trustworthy instance (don’t know how, i dont mind much on what instance i choose for YouTube frontend proxies but for searches i want to be more careful, maybe if there was a search extension to randomize instance between EU-based instances i’d feel more comfortable since its what made me pivot to Startpage years ago as it was purely a EU-based company)
TROM Search via
https://search.trom.tf/?q=%25swill cycle through instances. Sometimes the results suck but you can simply rerun your query. This is what I currently use for everything by default.
I switched to Brave Search when I switched to Brave, very pleased with it so far. Its image search isn’t quite as good but otherwise, I haven’t looked back.
I’m wondering if I should use it as well. I know LibreWolf isn’t for me
I use it for everyday things like schoolwork and gmail and it works great so far. I still have Librewolf on the side but it seems like it’s for more privacy and that you’re not supposed to change it too much for example adding more extensions or it defeats the purpose of it.
Yea, it feels like the tor browser of clear web
dirt on water? mud?
MudFox?
+1 for Waterfox
I switched to it after the Firefox debacle. Brave is my main browser and I used Firefox as an alt, but now it’s just Brave and Waterfox.
It’s not as heavy on the privacy protections as LibreWolf but it’s nowhere near the level of site breakage that I got with LibreWolf. Plus, unlike LibreWolf whose chief maintainer is heavily political and includes those politics in what changes are pushed (another major reason I abandoned Firefox), I have yet to see any blatant political statements or actions with Waterfox.
Considering the fact that I never used Firefox for privacy so much as having an alt to keep big tech sites separate from my main traffic, it works just fine.
Wasn’t the whole reason to use Waterfox because Firefox didn’t support 64x at the time? It supports it now, so why would you still use Waterfox?
It got a big boost when Mozilla updated their ToS a couple months ago to say they could use your browser data to train their AI.
Well, it’s not that they said they would, it’s that they updated their terms so that they could if they wanted to. For some (myself included) that was enough.
Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it’s better for the normal user
I have found that Waterfox is slightly, slightly faster on both Windows and Android and am loving it so far.
Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it’s better for the normal user
How is removing blobs better for the normal user?
Because it makes a healthier base to work with or to simply use it without caring
Increasing privacy (and sometimes security)
Yeah Tuff, give me some fresh dirt.
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