I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

To be clear, I’m not talking about stock “no settings changed” Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

Thanks!

  • Fjor@lemm.ee
    253·
    1 year ago

    I use Vivaldi alongside Firefox. And yes, Vivaldi is great. It has a really really nice tab management system which I really wish was on Firefox. Otherwise it’s very fast and very customisable. I recommend to at least give it a solid try.

    Although not OpenSource it is Source Available: https://vivaldi.com/source/

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
      42·
      1 year ago

      not even source available, if I understand it correctly, that code does not contain essential UI features, which mean that you couldn’t compile Vivaldi for yourself. And that’s definitely a deal breaker. Also, not having a git repository and publishing source code that way heavily damages Vivaldi’s transparency. Although it’s clear that they are not transparent in the first place by being proprietary software.