- cross-posted to:
- sandrolinux
- opensource
- firefox
- cross-posted to:
- sandrolinux
- opensource
- firefox
New gecko based browsers are rare nowadays but this one is especially unique to me because it is more than just “firefox with tweaks” like a lot of the ones I’ve come across. The UI is different, it’s working on custom settings, a new more powerful sidebar, a new theming system, and potentially IPFS/Dat support further down the line. It’s very early in development but it’s still impressive as it is.
5% of the code referring to the UI is protected, the rest is OpenSource and everything is open for auditing. There is nothing hidden regarding privacy or user. What’s more, the modification of these codes by the user is even tolerated and explained in detail in the forum, where there is a sub-forum about it. Precisely Jon von Tetzchner, the founder of the Vivaldi cooperative and certainly not a stranger, has made his opinion very clear about the practices used by Google and the tracking of users, which he totally rejects.
Why?
No it is not. They try to disallow you from doing it in their EULA, even though they know that you are absolutely free to do so in many legislations. (“except as permitted by applicable law”)
Maybe you could ask him about his opinion on the shady companies they do business with?
Certainly Vivaldi is financed by different sponsors and search providers, whose links are included by default in Vivaldi, but all of these can be eliminated in the configuration if you don’t want them, just like Google’s APIs. See which other browsers allow you to do this, Mozilla? Regarding the protected part of Vivaldi, whose modifications are expressly tolerated by Vivaldi. What is not allowed to use it for other foreign browsers. For the user himself there is only the private rule ‘Do what you want with Vivaldi’.
https://jon.vivaldi.net/dont-let-monopolists-call-the-shots-save-the-internet/#more-40966