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Vivaldi as alternative? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months 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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[–] henchman2019@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm just some rando with no expertise to speak of .. but .. I just installed Vivaldi on Android and went to
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://amiunique.org/fingerprint.

After testing Vivaldi, they both say it has a unique fingerprint.

Do these sites really tell the fingerprint story or is there more to it?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

you can't use uBlock with Vivaldi

[–] bubbalouie@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months 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.