Is waterfox spooky?
I have been using Waterfox for some time now, and I generally really like it, and since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox and Librewolf. However I did recently become aware that it’s owned by an ad company, my general question is have they done anything spooky yet? also while this might come off as a general paranoia are the accounts I logged in using Waterfox safe
System1 now own Waterfox, but Alex Kontos is still leading the direction of Waterfox and will be for the foreseeable future.
ref. www.waterfox.net/docs/faq
System1 operates the most dynamic Responsive Acquisition Marketing Platform
ref. system1.com
tldr: still seemed to be owned by a marketing/advertising company or am i missing something ?
As far as i can see the blog post some people are referncing only states
Waterfox is independent again.
But doenst say what that means exactly or who now controls or owns it. So until i see any other information, i will continue to assume that it is owned and controlled by system1. But If anyone, knows something more, please be so kind and share your sources.
www.dictionary.com/browse/independent
Also it’s clearly states at the bottom of the site BrowserWorks, an independent company. Company No. 14843353.
You can look up it in the goverment database …company-information.service.gov.uk/…/14843353
Nature of business (SIC) 62012 - Business and domestic software development
Interesting … might be worth keeping an eye out on them.
since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox
I’m interested because I’m a KDE fanboy: I’ve looked at some screenshots and I’m seeing regular old Firefox. What’s QT about it?
No Firefox uses GTK.
You can disable SSD (server side decorarion) to get the in-line buttons, in the “customize appearance” screen bottom left.
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