3 ms·

How does Vivaldi compare to Brave, which is also Chromium-based and privacy focused? Is there a compelling reason to use one over the other, such as the organi

How does Vivaldi compare to Brave, which is also Chromium-based and privacy focused? Is there a compelling reason to use one over the other, such as the organizations behind them or power user features?

deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
Kye 6y ago
edit: I am tired of this place.
- lawnchair_larry 6y ago
  The CEO did not in fact donate to a hate campaign. Please avoid defaming someone with mischaracterizations of their opinion. He is a religious man who believes that marriage is a religious institution between a man and a woman. You don’t agree with that position. Neither do I. And it might be hurtful. But this is not the same thing as a hate campaign. Eich does not hate gay people. Many who opposed Prop 8 (and the majority opposed it, don’t forget - it failed) did so more or less on semantic principles. They supported equal rights but objected to using the word “marriage” specifically, as they felt that it was redefining a religious word. Some undoubtedly did hate gays, but viewpoints of the opposition were nuanced and varied. It’s not accurate to conflate them all with hate. The Thiel boycott seems futile, because I doubt you’re also opposing facebook, paypal, spacex, stripe, spotify, and dozens of other SaaS that is powering services you use.
julesallen 6y ago
Over the past few weeks I've been using both, Brave is a little more polished and the built in blockers are great. However, they've been caught a couple of times doing naughty things: https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect Combine that with a CEO who had a my way or die reputation for not admitting something's wrong and you've got a browser I removed from my system. Trust is huge and makes me wonder what else is happening in the background nobody has caught. Vivaldi's got all kinds of tweaks exposed you'd need to dig into flags for. I like that. I think my biggest gripe is dragging and dropping links out doesn't work. Pretty small potatoes. Daily driver is still Firefox + uMatrix + uBlock Origin and hoping for Mozilla email + calendaring at some point soon (take my money!).
- paulryanrogers 6y ago
  > Mozilla email + calendaring So Thunderbird with Lightning?
  - julesallen 6y ago
    Great for the last mile. Thinking more of storage and server management.

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

Kye 6y ago

edit: I am tired of this place.

lawnchair_larry 6y ago
The CEO did not in fact donate to a hate campaign. Please avoid defaming someone with mischaracterizations of their opinion. He is a religious man who believes that marriage is a religious institution between a man and a woman. You don’t agree with that position. Neither do I. And it might be hurtful. But this is not the same thing as a hate campaign. Eich does not hate gay people. Many who opposed Prop 8 (and the majority opposed it, don’t forget - it failed) did so more or less on semantic principles. They supported equal rights but objected to using the word “marriage” specifically, as they felt that it was redefining a religious word. Some undoubtedly did hate gays, but viewpoints of the opposition were nuanced and varied. It’s not accurate to conflate them all with hate. The Thiel boycott seems futile, because I doubt you’re also opposing facebook, paypal, spacex, stripe, spotify, and dozens of other SaaS that is powering services you use.

julesallen 6y ago

Over the past few weeks I've been using both, Brave is a little more polished and the built in blockers are great. However, they've been caught a couple of times doing naughty things: https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect Combine that with a CEO who had a my way or die reputation for not admitting something's wrong and you've got a browser I removed from my system. Trust is huge and makes me wonder what else is happening in the background nobody has caught. Vivaldi's got all kinds of tweaks exposed you'd need to dig into flags for. I like that. I think my biggest gripe is dragging and dropping links out doesn't work. Pretty small potatoes. Daily driver is still Firefox + uMatrix + uBlock Origin and hoping for Mozilla email + calendaring at some point soon (take my money!).

paulryanrogers 6y ago
> Mozilla email + calendaring So Thunderbird with Lightning?
- julesallen 6y ago
  Great for the last mile. Thinking more of storage and server management.