• morrowind
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    2 months ago

    I also used to use opera, and thought the Chinese ownership made me uneasy, I only left due to their short term loan scandal.

    But honestly I don’t regret it because vivaldi has a lovely community. Opera just felt cold and faceless, and I didn’t even know anyone else who used it.

    Vivaldi has all the features (except VPN) and a lot more, so you won’t find it lacking there

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      2 months ago

      huh interesting! is it chromium based too though? I think at this point i’d mostly want to make a switch off chromium browsers with all the rumoured forced ads nonsense

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        2 months ago

        Yes, but built in adblocker like opera so it’s unaffected

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          2 months ago

          nah i’d not trust that, if chromium itself gets invaded by forced ads no chromium based browser is safe

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            2 months ago

            Are you talking about manifest v3 or something else? Cause manifest v3 doesn’t force ads, it just cripples third party ad blockers. Also viv, (and some others, like brave) already disable plenty of Google stuff like FloC and privacy sandbox

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              2 months ago

              Well yea it’s the same thing to me. The built in browser adblocker is great but never fast enough to block google’s (and especially youtube’s) bullshit attempts at trying to shove ads into our faces