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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  1. I don't care that much about privacy anyway. I don't really get why privacy geeks talk about Google collecting your searches while willingly keeping Mozilla telemetry (which is something W disables by default) on. What's the difference? I get why Google shouldn't be collecting external data but I have no issue at all with giving them the data I actually input. Plus Firefox has a lot more deals with bad privacy groups like Google, Fakespot, and Pocket.
  2. You can't make the assumption that they got worse on privacy just because they got bought. They're open-source, show me the code.
  3. Waterfox is said to be slightly faster. They also seem to have a lot more focus for development.
  4. Waterfox disables some of the Mozilla BS, like Pocket and that weird redesign of tabs to floating, by default.