A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

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    Although you could take into account what the makers are telling you.

    Google claims Chrome is private too.

    all over the news, Vivaldi has not

    Becauae not many gives a fuck about Vivaldi enough to reverse engineer it

    not like I can validate the Firefox source either

    You don’t have to. Thousand of people who know what they’re doing does.

    just trusting the website I download it from, or more likely my distro packaging

    This is a separate security, not privacy, issue resolved by trust chain model of distro packaging.

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      You don’t have to. Thousand of people who know what they’re doing does. But why would I trust any of them? I’m pointing out you have to choose who you trust, and from the history with the makers of Vivaldi, I trust them. Same as I don’t trust Google given their history.

      Of course, I’m screwed anyway because there’s not reasonable competition in the phone space, and I have to use Microsoft products for work, and… {insert a dozen more things here}. Given all that, I’d like the browser that works better for me.

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        that works better for me. sure, I could not care less what browsers others use.

        Trusting a company to do right by you (for unknown reasons) vs. trusting thousands of independent researchers who have no incentive to wrong you. Though pick, I guess.