It definitely tastes different - flatter somehow. I don’t know why, but it does.

Jet Set Willy

Not to recommend as I don’t use them (I use LW and Mullvad - and Ironfox on mobile - all of which might give you the same issues you have with LW) but I’ve heard people mention Mercury, Floorp and Waterfox as being good privacy focused alternatives.

It’s specifically forked to be the most privacy respecting non-Tor browser out there. The extreme privacy is the point of it. I’m not sure what it is you want but its not LW - and thats fine, use another fork instead.

Could be yeah. Very weird how it just started happening though. As far as I’m aware nothing on the websites has changed and I haven’t updated LW in the last week or so.