Changed the rating of Waterfox from High -> Medium.
See #117 for more information.
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd" xml:lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8"/>
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<title>Waterfox Classic — Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css"/>
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"/>
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<meta http-equiv="onion-location" content="http://spywaredrcdg5krvjnukp3vbdwiqcv3zwbrcg6qh27kiwecm4qyfphid.onion/articles/waterfox_classic.html"/>
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<link rel="icon" href = "../images/favicon.ico"/>
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<title>Waterfox Classic - Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="case">
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<div class="nav"><a href="index.html">← Catalog</a></div>
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<a href="index.html">← Catalog</a>
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</div>
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<div class="main">
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<img src="../images/waterfox_logo.png" alt="Waterfox Logo"/>
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<h1>Waterfox Classic</h1>
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<p>Version tested was 2020.10.</p>
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<p>
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Waterfox is a web browser that is a fork of <a href="../articles/firefox.html">Firefox</a>.
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Note: This article has a few issues. See <a href="https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog/issues/117">this</a> for more details.
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</p>
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<h2>Spyware Level: <span class="orange">High</span></h2>
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<h2>Spyware Level: <span class="yellow>">Medium</span></h2>
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<p>
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Waterfox is a fork of Firefox that claims to be more private and secure
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than Firefox. However, Waterfox contains telemetry and shares
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well as Waterfox's own update service. You can look at a list of these requests
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<a href="../images/waterfox_classic_spyware.png">here</a>.
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</p>
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<h3>Waterfox offers spyware search engines to its users and uses Bing as its default search engine</h3>
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By default Waterfox is using the spyware search engine <a href="../articles/bing.html">Bing</a>.
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Why would a privacy-based Web Browser offer this search engine by default? The other offered search engines are not much better- we have the option of searching with Google,
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which also logs your internet searches, and Ecosia, which also logs your internet searches (but it gives them to Bing). The developers attitude towards these search engines is concerning:
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<i>"Bing is actually quite good for privacy as well (let's not forget Mozilla even suggested them as a more privacy focused search back in 2009)."</i><sup><a href="#s2">[2]</a></sup>
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</p>
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It's very clear that while the browser advertises itself as very privacy focused, the actual words and actions of the developers aren't consistent with this claim.
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</p>
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<h3>Waterfox is integrated into the "Firefox Accounts" spyware platform</h3>
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The "Firefox Accounts" platform allows you to sync a lot of sensitive
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where the user can understand what they are giving up when they download the update.
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<p>Other known spywares, like Chromium, make use of this method</p>
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<h3>Not spyware related, but worth noting</h3>
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<h3>Anti-privacy search engine by default</h3>
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By default Waterfox uses the search engine <a href="../articles/bing.html">Bing</a>.
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Why would a privacy-based Web Browser offer this search engine by default? The other offered search engines are not much better- we have the option of searching with Google,
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which also logs your internet searches, and Ecosia, which also logs your internet searches (but it gives them to Bing). The developers attitude towards these search engines is concerning:
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</p>
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<i>"Bing is actually quite good for privacy as well (let's not forget Mozilla even suggested them as a more privacy focused search back in 2009)."</i><sup><a href="#s2">[2]</a></sup>
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</p>
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It's very clear that while the browser advertises itself as very privacy focused, the actual words and actions of the developers aren't consistent with this claim.
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<div class="footer">
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<hr/>
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<p><b>
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<b>This article was created prior to 6/2/2018</b><br/>
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This article was last edited on 12/27/2020
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This article was last edited on 2/20/2022
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<p>
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If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
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<h1>Web Browser</h1>
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<p>Web Browser is a browser originally based on Pale Moon.</p>
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<h2>Spyware Level: <span class="green">Not Spyware</span></h2>
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<p>Web Browser <span class="green">makes no unsolicited requests at all.</span> It is also fully open source.<sup><a href="#one">[1]</a></sup> It is a great choice for everyday use and due to it being based on Pale Moon, it has access to all of the XUL plugins available.</p>
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<p>Web Browser <span class="green">makes no unsolicited requests at all.</span> It is also fully open source.<sup><a href="#one">[1]</a></sup> Due to it being based on Pale Moon, it has access to all of the XUL plugins available.</p>
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