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submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...

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[-] Allero@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.

And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn't even work properly lol

Typical GNU maximalism.

(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn't do anything you don't ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)

[-] box_ebony@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

icecat is based on the LTS version, iceweasel the rolling-release. I have been using iceweasel for almost a year and all the sites I have used work

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I see - thanks for clarification!

Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.

this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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