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Hi there,

I recently received notice of being a part of the one billionth data breach and I am officially sick of it. I love and use firefox and beta, but I know my privacy is not that protected. I was looking through reviews and found Waterfox which is supposed to be built on the firefox platform, but has better privacy protections. I downloaded it and all seemed right. I imported from Firefox. Then I tried to download it to my iphone and the only thing that came up was "Water Fox". I downloaded it and couldn't even get through opening it without crazy ads and it looking like some game app. It wanted my saved data from firefox to import. But, no way. Either this was pretending to be WaterFox and a scam, or WaterFox IS a scam. So, I'm hoping maybe someone here would know and would also know if I just made a huge mistake by installing this. If it were just an app pretending to be WaterFox, why wasn't there an actual waterfox app? That was the only one even close. And, the reviews said that WaterFox was students working with Firefox or something like that, but couldn't find anything about them in Firefox forums. Any info would be greatly appreciated. And, if I did just make a huge mistake, is there a way to fix it? I didn't sign in with the squirrely iphone app, but I did with the desktop. Eeeep.

Hi there, I recently received notice of being a part of the one billionth data breach and I am officially sick of it. I love and use firefox and beta, but I know my privacy is not that protected. I was looking through reviews and found Waterfox which is supposed to be built on the firefox platform, but has better privacy protections. I downloaded it and all seemed right. I imported from Firefox. Then I tried to download it to my iphone and the only thing that came up was "Water Fox". I downloaded it and couldn't even get through opening it without crazy ads and it looking like some game app. It wanted my saved data from firefox to import. But, no way. Either this was pretending to be WaterFox and a scam, or WaterFox IS a scam. So, I'm hoping maybe someone here would know and would also know if I just made a huge mistake by installing this. If it were just an app pretending to be WaterFox, why wasn't there an actual waterfox app? That was the only one even close. And, the reviews said that WaterFox was students working with Firefox or something like that, but couldn't find anything about them in Firefox forums. Any info would be greatly appreciated. And, if I did just make a huge mistake, is there a way to fix it? I didn't sign in with the squirrely iphone app, but I did with the desktop. Eeeep.

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Waterfox is real and have been using for years. It's not on IOS yet. see screenshot

https://www.waterfox.net/ https://www.waterfox.net/blog/ Support is here ---> https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/

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Ɖɔɖɔɖo si wotia

Waterfox is real and have been using for years. It's not on IOS yet. see screenshot

https://www.waterfox.net/ https://www.waterfox.net/blog/ Support is here ---> https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/

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Waterfox is a third-party build of Firefox as third-party builds cannot use the Firefox name. Though there is an exception of sorts and that is the portable Firefox for Windows as it uses the official Windows builds with a custom launcher that allows it to be self contained even run completely off a usb flash drive.

Waterfox got its start in making 64-bit or Win64 builds of Release versions when Mozilla started with the work on them in the other channels as it was not until later that Mozilla considered the Win64 builds to stable for Release channel until Fx 42.0 though it was Fx 43.0 when it was officially served on mozilla.org

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