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4 That is what Vivaldi devs do, because of this Vivaldi updates are some weeks behind Chromium updates, except if there are security patches. Another Example is EDGE, yes I know its a telemetry nightmare, but all go to MS and allied companies, nothing to Google.
Firefox is undoubtfoll one of the best Browsers out there, i use it as second Browser and also Otter with its own engine, both for certain tests because of different engines in some Websites, but the influence of Google is way bigger in Mozilla than in Vivaldi, because Mozilla depends on the subvencions from Google, not only to use the Google search by default, incommings are because of surveillance advertisings, most used in the USA, but not in the EU where it is banned. Depending on extern investors is always a contract with the devil, because this investors have the power to dictate the rules, resting the independence of the product.
The business model of Vivaldi is different. They include by default some links and search engines, which pay a commision only if the user use them, the search engines are mainly privacy oriented, DDG, Startpage, Ecosia, etc. If you want you can delete all of these also the default links. Also incommings from a Merchstrore and donations. Maybe also commisions from Vivaldi Automotion from Renault, Mercedes, VAG and Polestare because of including Vivaldi in their cars. As say, there are no extern investors, but clients which pay to use Vivaldi or if the user use their product. Not the same as Mozilla being a client of Google to gain incommings.
Anyway, currently the power of Google don’t relay in Chromium, but in his huge amount of services it has and Webs which use his APIs and services. THAT is the real risk. The attempt to influence via Chromium (FloC, IdleAPI, some other telemetry and trackers in the past, all failed miserably, because they were all removed in most Chromium forks). This is why now trying to get this dominance through its services, with this WEI DRM crap, which forces ALL browsers to include a Google Token, in order to be able to access the pages, this affects all browsers equally, regardless of the engine they use, also Firefox and even EDGE and Apple’s Safari.
For this reason, it no longer matters which browser you use, in fact we are all in the same boat and it is convenient to act together against this outrage. Well, if you need a certain privacy, there are not much options left, apart of FF with some forks and Vivaldi.
4 That is what Vivaldi devs do, because of this Vivaldi updates are some weeks behind Chromium updates, except if there are security patches. Another Example is EDGE, yes I know its a telemetry nightmare, but all go to MS and allied companies, nothing to Google.
Firefox is undoubtfoll one of the best Browsers out there, i use it as second Browser and also Otter with its own engine, both for certain tests because of different engines in some Websites, but the influence of Google is way bigger in Mozilla than in Vivaldi, because Mozilla depends on the subvencions from Google, not only to use the Google search by default, incommings are because of surveillance advertisings, most used in the USA, but not in the EU where it is banned. Depending on extern investors is always a contract with the devil, because this investors have the power to dictate the rules, resting the independence of the product.
The business model of Vivaldi is different. They include by default some links and search engines, which pay a commision only if the user use them, the search engines are mainly privacy oriented, DDG, Startpage, Ecosia, etc. If you want you can delete all of these also the default links. Also incommings from a Merchstrore and donations. Maybe also commisions from Vivaldi Automotion from Renault, Mercedes, VAG and Polestare because of including Vivaldi in their cars. As say, there are no extern investors, but clients which pay to use Vivaldi or if the user use their product. Not the same as Mozilla being a client of Google to gain incommings.
Anyway, currently the power of Google don’t relay in Chromium, but in his huge amount of services it has and Webs which use his APIs and services. THAT is the real risk. The attempt to influence via Chromium (FloC, IdleAPI, some other telemetry and trackers in the past, all failed miserably, because they were all removed in most Chromium forks). This is why now trying to get this dominance through its services, with this WEI DRM crap, which forces ALL browsers to include a Google Token, in order to be able to access the pages, this affects all browsers equally, regardless of the engine they use, also Firefox and even EDGE and Apple’s Safari.
For this reason, it no longer matters which browser you use, in fact we are all in the same boat and it is convenient to act together against this outrage. Well, if you need a certain privacy, there are not much options left, apart of FF with some forks and Vivaldi.