It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • Electricd@lemmybefree.netEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.

    Same can be said about fingerprinting protection.

    Search engines were useful, the scraping/AI happened.

    Google’s quality has decreased, but other engines have improved, and LLM search summaries are really good (brave search is a good example of this)

    I think LibreWolf enforces compromises I’m not willing to do, instead of using different techniques