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What's your Favorite Firefox Alternative, and why? | Why is this question with an active discussion getting downvoted? Use your words, not your mouse. That's what this instance is for.

The other day, I made a post about Firefox's web extensions, specifically for YouTube. A lot of people pointed out Mozilla's recent TOS update, which pertains to selling personal data. I noticed there were no suggestions, though. What alternative would you suggest, Lemmy?

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Librewolf
- Just switched to it the other day. I liked the letterboxing and its assistance to reduce fingerprinting and OOTB ublock origin. And the familiarity of Firefox made it an easier transition from reg Firefox.
- What are the advantages?
  
  Fork of FireFox,
  with a focus on data privacy + security:
  https://librewolf.net/
  I'd also like to add IronFox,
  similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
  https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/
  
  From what I know, librewolf is just a script. Sm it will be susceptible to Firefox’s policies
  
  After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it's a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.
  So it's unlikely that it will be susceptible,
  unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.

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