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Vivaldi is better than most. Most of it, is open-source, only the UI is not, for marketing/brand, etc reasons (they explained it better here https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/). I prefer to use Zen or arkenfox but since Mozilla appears to be following the "AI everywhere" route I will stick with Zen for now. For work related, sometimes I have to use a chromium browser so I use Vivaldi since I don't like Brave. One other option would be to use ungoogled-chromium which is chromium but without any google spyware or services for that matter but, because of that, you can't easily install extensions so it's a trade-off.
I couldn't find any fresh ungoogled-chromium builds, at least for my device. Isn't the project actually dead?
No. If you are looking for binaries you have them here https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
So they just don't port/compile it for certain platforms anymore?
For what I remember they only compiled it to Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and some ARM architectures. You can always compile it yourself altho, the wait time is lengthy.
I’ve done this, and while it’s a good browser, it’s super annoying - so much easier to stick Arkenfox.js into Firefox where uBO was never under threat anyway.
The level of control Google has over the Chromium project is always going to be a major liability, so we must support other engines long term, and until Ladybird and other projects are out there, it’s Firefox.
It’s a shame to see how beholden pols have become to corpo-oligarchs, we’ll never see Google carved up the way AT&T was.
I agree, that's the dream at least. Even Mozilla has been making poor choices (AI and changes to their privacy policy with more nuanced language so they can share your data with their partners, which goes directly against their old promise to never share it or collect it). My faith in them is very much shaken but yeah, they are still better than the alternative....for now.
Google's also probably influencing Mozilla to turn Firefox into another Chromium. I wouldn't be surprised if they buy out Mozilla just to kill Firefox and gain a total monopoly on the web.
There are some laws in America that prevents Google and companies in general, of having a monopoly. Google has every interest of having a competitor because of this, hence why they give them money....unless the law is changed....
Those laws have been gutted for years now.