3d ago

What's the dirt on Waterfox?

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.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

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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 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 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=%25s will cycle through instances. Sometimes the results suck but you can simply rerun your query. This is what I currently use for everything by default.

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