Do you trust Vivaldi although it’s closed source? I get that you mistrust Mozilla since they integrated AI but there are plenty of forks that cut the AI part and even are more privacy focused.
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super_user_do@feddit.it 2 days ago
Once I saw AI being integrated into Firefox, my trust towards the Mozilla Foundation dropped permanently. I have now switched over to Vivaldi which is an amazing European browser that kinda mimics Opera in many ways (but without the spyware ofc)
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
super_user_do@feddit.it 2 days ago
The company seems legit. Moreover they are very transparent about their business model, or at least enough to be trustable. I am not against Proprietary software per se, I just dislike AI Slop and value when companies respect me as a user.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 days ago
It’s literally just a sidebar that lets you do queries to your LLM of choice. It’s not even in the way. If you don’t want to use it, you just don’t use it.
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
The only parts of Vivaldi that are closed is just their ui skin on top of chrome and the tweaks they added. They still provide source for the open bits they use (chromium under the hood).
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Can you still use uBlock origin? Full, not lite. Haven’t followed Vivaldi and how it’s handling all the manifest changes impacting chrome extensions.
super_user_do@feddit.it 21 hours ago
I still have full uBlock origin installed and it works. Vivaldi comes with an adblocker though, but I disable it since I use uBlock Origin
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Vivaldi is Chromium based, that’s like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
There are plenty of Firefox forks that will be actively removing the AI crap. Waterfox, Pale Moon, Librewolf, Zen, Floorp to name a few. And these will all continue to support Manifest v2 and therefore adblockers. en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Web_browsers_based_on…
iglou@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yes. And? It is open source, and Vivaldi modifies it heavily.
You’re criticizing browsers based on “Shitty Browser A” while promoting browsers based on “Shitty Browser B”. Both categories are heavily modified and just as viable.
People need to stop being scared of Chromium-based browsers.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Specially, nobody needs more Chromium based browsers.
iglou@programming.dev 2 days ago
Unforunately, there is no solid alternative at the moment. Firefox used to be great, but the quality of the browser has been consistently declining for years now. In terms of features, stability, and accuracy. The various forks I tested back when I couldn’t deal with Firefox’s issues had the exact same issues.
At least Vivaldi is european.