Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

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  • iceraven-browser

    Iceraven Browser

  • LibreWolf is a soft-fork in this vein. Notably, it's on Flathub, so it's very easy to install.

    => https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

    Iceraven is a similar (less mature) project for Android.

    => https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

    It would be nice to have a single umbrella project/brand, which could essentially treat Firefox in the same way Edge and Opera treat Chrome.

  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

  • If you're looking for a privacy friendly fork of Chromium, the only option that's worth considering is Ungoogled Chromium on Desktop and Bromite on Android.

    https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

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  • bromite

    Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

  • https://github.com/bromite/bromite

    Brave has crypto ads and a lot of other unnecessary stuff built in. They've also made questionable decisions in the past, like inserting referral codes in links. If anything, Brave is a worse choice than Firefox in terms of privacy even after enabling this new ad suggestions feature.

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