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I’m looking into Firefox alternatives as I wanna see what’s available. Being Norwegian, Vivaldi seems like a good choice to replace Firefox on desktop and Safari on iOS. Tried it for a night and it works pretty good. I do however have reservations about it being based on Chromium.

How much power does Google actually have over Vivaldi? And would it actually matter for my quest for degoogling myself?

In case anyone’s wondering. I’m also looking into LibreWolf.

Edit: Rewrote the start as people got too hung up on Firefox.

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[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Google does not benefit from your user data in Vivaldi.

The Chromium project is also mostly community driven and yes, Google has had a big hand in it, but it is in no way fully Google's thing.

On paper.

[-] Parptarf@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I’ll look into that link later, thanks for sharing!

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