• comador @lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I still prefer FF or Vivaldi over Google Chrome. Yes Vivaldi is Open Source Chromium, but at least it doesn’t have the Chrome crap in it.

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      3 months ago

      Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn’t itself open-source, by the way.

      They say of themselves that “for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit”. I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.

      https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/

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      3 months ago

      Is there a mobile Vivaldi counterpart? It doesn’t make sense for me that I can’t share history with desktop and mobile together

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      I tried Vivaldi, it’s a good browser but I prefer Brave because it has build it Tor. In my country most torrent sites are blocked so a built-in Tor is useful to me, it can open those sites without VPN.

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        3 months ago

        Brave is also a shifty shady browser that has problems with inserting affiliate links without telling you and selling off user data. They’re really not better or remotely trustworthy TBH, you might as well use the actual TOR browser built on Firefox if you need that capability.

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          Yeah, I don’t understand how Brave became acceptable all of the sudden.

          Did they do some big marketing campaign in the US or something?

          • Sourav Satvaya@lemmy.worldOP
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            They definitely did some marketing, because it came out of nowhere. When I first installed it, it was all over the internet, from YouTube to webpages. A similar thing you can notice with the Arc Browser. I couldn’t find any exceptional features on the Arc Browser but the hype is encouraging people to try it.

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              Yup, work in a call center and it was a huge ramp up all of a sudden with elderly clients on brave and asking why our site stopped working…

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          Also the android app is crap and keeps crashing, and their ad blocker is mich inferior to the glory of ublock origin