What’s the dirt on Waterfox?
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What’s the dirt on Waterfox?
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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/

Petri
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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

Jakob Fel
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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.

Hellfire103
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I use SearXNG. I would highly recommend.

Petri
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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)
@Prathas@lemmy.zip
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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.

Petri
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Oh, wow! Thanks so much, sorry for late reply I am deeply grateful for you giving this help*___*

@Prathas@lemmy.zip
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lol you have nothing to apologize for; nothing’s late if the topic wasn’t urgent :)

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