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jwz: Mozilla is an advertising company now
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@davel I decided to switch to #vivaldi. Highly recommend it.
Vivaldi is even worse: Unlike Firefox, its proprietariness doesn’t end at a closed-source DRM binary blob.
In fact every Chromium-based browser is worse than Firefox: Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
Vivaldi is closed source and based on Chromium (albeit modified), so it does not sound all that appealing. As long as uBlock origin, NoScript and Tampermonkey can unleash their full potential in Firefox, I'm likely to stick with it.
Vivaldi is good in some ways (I miss the old Opera and Vivaldi is a spiritual successor to it), but we really don't need more Chromium-based browsers in the world. It's becoming a Chromium monoculture, which is bad for the web.
If you want to use a different browser, try Librewolf.
Proprietary Chromium browser. No thanks
I would definitely use Vivaldi if it wasn't Chromium-based, but it is so a no-go from me.
@watson387 Isn't Chromium, in an open-source way and far away from Google, a good choice?
I don't support Google's web takeover so I don't want to use their browser, open-source or not.
Others have commented on the issues with Vivaldi, but do you have points on what you like about Vivaldi? People might suggest non-chromium browsers that do the same things
https://lemmy.ca/post/23688697
I'm not op, but these are some things that I appriciate about Vivaldi:
Unfortunately I am looking for alternatives to Vivaldi since Google has decided to kill quality web browsing on Chromium browsers. Much of the web is virtually unusable to me without a tool like ublock quieting things down to work past my sensory processing issues. At times it is hard to think that the majority of web devs have anything but distain for disabled people.
I do use Fennic on Android (with ublock and darkreader) because Mozilla decided to block access to about:config in the mobile version and I have yet to find another way to always force pages to load the desktop version. (Mobile versions of sites disable most of the built in accessibility options like the ability to zoom)
The settings I set in fennic if anyone is curious:
switching to a browser engine developed by a literal advertising company seems like a weird protest against advertising
@triplenadir I think my choice wasn't the best indeed... which alternatives would you guys recommend? On iOS....
any Firefox fork, while we wait for Servo to be ready