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posted by janrinok on Sunday February 16 2020, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the conflict-of-interest? dept.

Waterfox web browser sold to System1

It appears that the Waterfox web browser has been sold to System1 recently, the same company that bought the Startpage search engine some time ago. To be precise, Startpage was bought by Privacy One Group Ltd which System1 owns. System1 is an advertising company that tries to "make advertising better and safer, while respecting consumer privacy".

[...] Privacy expert Liz McIntyre, who was involved with Startpage prior to the ownership change, noticed in October 2019 that System1 was looking to hire a web browser developer. She decided to keep an eye on potential web browser sales as it was likely that System1 was interested in buying an established web browser with a user base instead of building one from scratch.

The job description provides insight on the potential target: It revealed that development would focus on the Mozilla platform and that a key goal was to keep a classic version of the browser up-to-date.

[...] There are not that many browsers that match the description which made the most popular ones, Waterfox and Pale Moon, the most likely target for a sale.

See also: Waterfox has joined System1


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @02:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @02:53AM (#958998)

    Post your name and address so we can destroy your livelihood and life for using the meanie browser.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by RandomFactor on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:31AM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:31AM (#959413) Journal

    Oh come on, lots of people use Chrome.

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