Remember that the enemy of my enemy is my friend (or, "Don't attack your teammates")

[kalman]

Waterfox has never been good enough for me (see analysis above) and now having a pay per click ad company as a background does not help much either. I hope projects like the Otter Browser will get more attention in the future.

[reb77]

@Rik

that is interesting. What are your views - is it necessarily a bad thing if initiatives like these fall in the hands of larger corporates? I think that it is possible for for-profit organizations to also have good policies, e.g. Qwant in the searching it provides, Magic earth (the maps app), etc. I’m not saying it happens often, i’m just saying it’s possible:). i don’t really know a lot about System1 - the initiator of Waterfox seems pretty positive about them in his blog!

Getting financing from a larger entity isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A pay-per-click advertising agency jumping onto the privacy bandwagon is concerning. It’s already difficult to tell which ‘privacy-focused’ providers are genuine and which are vultures in disguise. As tech giants are laying their dirty hands on everything they can, my private conspiracy theory is that there’s a much bigger player behind System1.

[DiegoM]

my2cent: After the nice discussion over many browser alternatives I’m confirmed in Firefox (an eventually derived Tor) for any installation. I believe that a community like /e/ may rise consistent usage and support to Firefox as a permanent and stable alternative contra-G. The configuration issue discussed here is a minor and solvable one.