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Take a look at Vivaldi and see if it's what you're looking for. Broadly, Brave is pro-privacy and pro-crypto while Vivaldi is pro-privacy and anti-crypto. Viva

by lmkg 4y ago

Take a look at Vivaldi and see if it's what you're looking for. Broadly, Brave is pro-privacy and pro-crypto while Vivaldi is pro-privacy and anti-crypto. Vivaldi is forked from Chromium directly rather than from Brave, but the similar pro-privacy stances mean that they remove or mitigate many of the same features. E.g. both disable FLOC, both have built-in ad-blockers, and both have committed to maintaining compatibility with ad-block extensions broken by Manifest V3. For what it's worth, Vivaldi is closed-source.

RankingMember 4y ago
Brave's paywall-bypassing news article viewer is tops. Does Vivaldi have that? I love Brave save for the crypto nonsense.
- easrng 4y ago
  Add the Bypass Paywalls extension, it works on Firefox and Chromium. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
  - Tijdreiziger 4y ago
    Wait, what's the difference between this and 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'? I've been using the latter.
- PufPufPuf 4y ago
  Brave browser is just three browser extensions in a trenchcoat
- _23sd 4y ago
  You can get something close to Brave's Speedreader setting on Firefox with an extension [1], the difference is you have to enable it on each site. There doesn't seem to be anything similar for Chromium, probably because it's done differently in each Chromium-based browser. Firefox's reader mode also has dark mode and other text options, which Brave still lacks on desktop even though their iOS browser has those options. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-view/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...
brnt 4y ago
> Vivaldi is closed-source. Therefore not even remotely a replacement for Chrome, Brave or any browser really. Vivaldi is also some of the chattiest in a network analysis I saw, which does not bode well either. Good UX is nice, but orthogonal to privacy, sane defaults and user freedom.

by lmkg 4y ago

RankingMember 4y ago

Brave's paywall-bypassing news article viewer is tops. Does Vivaldi have that? I love Brave save for the crypto nonsense.

easrng 4y ago
Add the Bypass Paywalls extension, it works on Firefox and Chromium. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- Tijdreiziger 4y ago
  Wait, what's the difference between this and 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'? I've been using the latter.
PufPufPuf 4y ago
Brave browser is just three browser extensions in a trenchcoat
_23sd 4y ago
You can get something close to Brave's Speedreader setting on Firefox with an extension [1], the difference is you have to enable it on each site. There doesn't seem to be anything similar for Chromium, probably because it's done differently in each Chromium-based browser. Firefox's reader mode also has dark mode and other text options, which Brave still lacks on desktop even though their iOS browser has those options. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-view/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...

brnt 4y ago

> Vivaldi is closed-source. Therefore not even remotely a replacement for Chrome, Brave or any browser really. Vivaldi is also some of the chattiest in a network analysis I saw, which does not bode well either. Good UX is nice, but orthogonal to privacy, sane defaults and user freedom.