

The comments here really put into perspective how many people don’t actually read the articles linked.
They’re using the open source ad block library from brave, largely because of licensing, but keeping text search ads for the default search engine (Start page) enabled because that is part of how Waterfox makes money.
It’s just an integrated adblocker… It’s not enabled for anyone using an ad blocker already and for new users… you can shut it off and still use uBlock Origin instead.



Joplin stores everything in a database and back up / sync can fail and/or corrupt… It’s nice that it’s FOSS but that was a deal breaker for me.
Obsidian stores everything in plain folders and markdown files and you can sync it between devices however you want. It’s not FOSS, unfortunately, but at least the data is easily accessible even without a program.