Hacker News Reader

From wikipedia

>In February 2020, Alex Kontos faced criticism over selling Waterfox to System1, an advertising company.[23][24]

>In 2018, How-To Geek advised users to not use Firefox forks such as Waterfox because security updates take longer to be incorporated into the forks compared to Firefox.[25]

I like their idea in general, but are you concerned that System1 ("[we] operate the world's most advanced Responsive Acquisition Marketing Platform") owns the project?

Yes, but the same concerns are applicable to Firefox given that Google is their major sponsor.

Here are instructions for customizing the Proton UI to imitate previous versions:

https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-styling-proton-ui.html

I like proton. THe menus are easy to scan. I don't have to learn a bunch of icon-function associations, I just scan the short titles. It's clean, but it doesn't diminish usability. It got rid of a bunch of clunky design choices.