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I am also someone who searches daily for apps that focus on privacy... At the moment, I have come across Firedragon.

It is yet another derivative of Firefox. But is it truly privacy-oriented? I hope I can discuss this with you.

What I have discovered is that Firedragon is actually a derivative of Floorp. Floorp is another browser that, as they claim, is privacy-oriented. But is that really the case? I also discovered that Firedragon originates from India. And I find that quite suspicious. I don't want to immediately say that every person from India who creates something is immediately suspicious. But things do often go wrong there when we talk about scamming. Anyway, let's leave that aside for now.

I would like to know your opinion and knowledge regarding this new browser.


Update notes:

  • Founder: Librewish?
  • Firedragon is open Open Source (MPL-2.0) and claims to be privacy focussed.
  • Firedragon is by: Garuda
  • Origin: India or maybe not?
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[โ€“] Duck@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Garuda is not privacy focused it claims to be but it is a blur vision of privacy

[โ€“] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, it's not the most hardened like some other privacy focused distros, but it's like any other distros. I don't see mal intention.

Maybe incompetence to some degree but we're better off with more projects attempting things independently than less. I don't see malicious actors here.