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Vivaldi's built on top of Chromium, but they've written an inhouse UI layer, built-in ad blocker and tracking protection and run their own sync services. (Some
by soundnote 5y ago
Vivaldi's built on top of Chromium, but they've written an inhouse UI layer, built-in ad blocker and tracking protection and run their own sync services. (Some other Chromium derivatives do, too: Brave and Edge being the most prominent ones)
Brave and Vivaldi default to privacy friendly search engines, try their damndest not to track you, have built-in adblockers and run their own sync services. Easily the best options for Chromium-based browsers.
Edge is also excellent if you don't care about privacy, but their sync service doesn't even include end to end encryption for all classes of synced data.
- SahAssar 5y ago> try their damndest not to track you This is questionable. Brave has injected referral codes into typed domains and other really suspect things. I haven't heard too much controversy around vivaldi, but until 2020-ish they did assign a unique ID to each install and track that.
- postalrat 5y agoHow does Vivaldi fund development?
- soundnote 5y agoBy search engine deals with not-Google companies (privacy friendly engines, Bing, etc.) and from their founder. I don't remember how many users they needed to be at break even, but they're not there as far as I know.