If you search with it, Waterfox gets a share of the revenue. That is, the default search on Waterfox is monetised. Waterfox is once again independent and grassroots.

Using an independent engine allows us to make decisions that are best for our users, rather than being tied to a large corporation. Most web browsers are powered by Blink or WebKit. For more details check out our terms of service and privacy policy. Unless you specifically register for a web service with us (of which we don’t currently have any), we do not want or touch your personal data. You may expect that to be the same for every browser, but each of them have different goals - ours is to make sure you don’t have to be worrying about what’s happening within your browser. We allow you to make the choices within your browser, while providing sane defaults to make sure things run smoothly for the average user. Waterfox is built to be privacy conscious and fast. We don’t have a parent company to report to, so we can make the right decisions for our users. We don’t track you, and we don’t make money from your data. What makes Waterfox different from other browsers is that it is built with privacy in mind. You are using a web browser right now, reading this! It’s the portal to the world wide web and arguably your most important piece of software installed. Waterfox is a web browser, used to surf the web.

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