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Why isn't your name in your profile here or why aren't you easily identified if that's the case? You're not all that identifiable here.


1. Is github the best place to report bugs / issues for Waterfox?

2. When (not in your lifetime obviously) Waterfox is broken, what canaries do you have deployed that we can archive now, like Mozilla's tell here?

3. What keeps waterfox afloat? Where/how do you accept funds?

4. How do I find a sync alternative or provide my own? Such that, I'm not reliant on Mozilla sync/backend? ... If none exists, how much would it cost for you to embed one? Would you accept a serious bounty for it assuming the focus is self hosted / no Waterfox backend services?


> When (not in your lifetime obviously) Waterfox is broken, what canaries do you have deployed that we can archive now, like Mozilla's tell here?

This is so melodramatic. It’s a set of patch files applied to the Firefox source tree. If an evil maintainer hatches a maniacal plan to collect user statistics and deletes the patch that removes telemetry or whatever, you can just `git revert`.


Veracrypt works just fine on M$ Windows 11 for FDE.



The security community used to maintain one that was fairly active pre-covid.

https://github.com/PaulSec/awesome-sec-talks


Is the best counter here to acquire a brand tld to operate themselves (setting aside all the linkrot it generates)? They've certainly got the resources when you compare against other brand tlds that this could have been an option.


The tld it's dependent on doesn't fall within these parameters. They also don't own and operate the .cc TLD do they?


How does being backed by financial information magically make that constraint go away?


I think librewolf gets you most of the way there. Just add a sponsorblock extension and check a few extra lists on its built in ubo.

Does the reliance on Firefox ESL or based on Gecko rule this one out?


Namecheap's been out a while, I'd drop them from your list too. Porkbun's in for now.


It was released as freeware back when by EA originally, which is what openRA relies on. Later the source was released under GPL[1] during the CNC remastered collection from EA.

[1]https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...


Yes, but "Freeware" is not a license. Typically there is an EULA that tells you what you are allowed to do.


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