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Vivaldi as alternative? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, with the whole Firefox ToS change and it's fingerprinting I asked on mastodon if anyone could recommend a web browser alternative to Firefox and was recommend to go with Vivaldi due to their no fingerprinting, and allowing unlock to still work even though it uses manifest v3.

I am already switching to librefox on windows, and fence on android.

But I wanted to ask if the claims for vivaldi where true?

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[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve tried out most of the popular browsers:

Arc
Firefox
Librewolf
Brave

I keep coming back to Vivaldi. Here are a few reasons why:

Built-in Workspaces (Way better than tab groups)
Customization (which I absolutely love)

I use Zen browser as backup. Firefox-based browsers always seem to have something broken, so it’s good to have a chromium-based browser.

I really like Brave for privacy reasons, but it lacks some of my most used features like workspace and split-view.

I know Vivaldi looks a bit overwhelming at first, but you can disable almost everything you don’t need.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

So, what I'm reading here is that tab groups are better than privacy.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you can't use uBlock with Vivaldi

[–] bubbalouie@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes you can. I have it installed and it's running fine.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's what I was assuming, but wanted to confirm. Thanks

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

Note that they have their own ad-blocker (not as good as uBo, mind you).

[–] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

It works just fine actually, the full (non-lite) version. For how long is still a question but the Vivaldi devs are keeping manifest v2 support alive for now.