• Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure System1 divested themselves of it.

    They still own Startpage and Startmail, though.

    • Petri@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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@retrolemmy.com
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        24 days ago

        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.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      I am curious why Librewolf isn’t for you?

      Overall I’ve had no issue with librewolf. It’s runs just like Firefox without some of the bloat. The very few sites I’ve found don’t work, don’t work on FF either (usually payment/online stores with popups and shit). Download whatever extension, change the settings and even sign into Firefox cloud. Yes, you’ll make your “fingerprint” more unique but, the other security improvemts/defaults make it a worthy trade off.

      Biggest annoyance is by default cookies/logged in sites are wiped on close. That can easily be changed globally, or white list what you want to save site settings for. Signing out of websites is a good habit anyway, especially ones with payment attached.

      The neat part is there’s a lot options to pick from, some of them are doing cool things like the one outta Japan Floorp looks interesting.

      • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip
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        24 days ago

        I want to keep cookies to log in easily or to keep some preferences in specific websites

        I want to keep the history for autofill urls and stuff

        I don’t want to keep light theme by default, as well as fixed browser size, and I have to entirely remove fingerprinting protection for that

        At this point I’m just using LibreWolf with settings a lot of people don’t use. Might as well use Firefox with custom about:config entries…

        Its default settings are not good for everyday people, and even for privacy enthusiasts. They’re for paranoid people, at the cost of making the browser much less enjoyable