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Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought
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Give me some of that closed source browser goodness, yes. Vivaldi and Chrome are the same thing from a privacy perspective precisely because you cannot verify that they're not.
Although you could take into account what the makers are telling you. You have to trust someone, and at least to my knowledge, Google fails and it's all over the news, Vivaldi has not. It's not like I can validate the Firefox source either, I'm just trusting the website I download it from, or more likely my distro packaging. And people do look at call outs browsers make etc.
Google claims Chrome is private too.
Becauae not many gives a fuck about Vivaldi enough to reverse engineer it
You don't have to. Thousand of people who know what they're doing does.
This is a separate security, not privacy, issue resolved by trust chain model of distro packaging.
Of course, I'm screwed anyway because there's not reasonable competition in the phone space, and I have to use Microsoft products for work, and... {insert a dozen more things here}. Given all that, I'd like the browser that works better for me.
Trusting a company to do right by you (for unknown reasons) vs. trusting thousands of independent researchers who have no incentive to wrong you. Though pick, I guess.