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		webmobdev on Jan 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-... It mentions that it is an alpha version - that's why the long list of caveat. And as Firefox becomes a spyware / adware, forks like these are welcome news.

kadoban on Jan 4, 2022 [–]

What leads you to call (or predict?) Firefox spyware/adware?

webmobdev on Jan 4, 2022 | [–]

Firefox’s address bar has ads now - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715179/firefox-suggest-...

kadoban on Jan 4, 2022 | | | [–]

Thanks. As long as they can be turned off easily, I personally don't mind that much, but yeah, hard to argue against your wording given that.

morsch on Jan 4, 2022 | | | [–]

So does the new tab page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy

And of course they've always sold access to the list of default search engines.

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