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Since Brave is apparently absolutely terrible, is Vivaldi any better IF YOU CAN'T USE FIREFOX*? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AeroLemming@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

To be clear, I'm not talking about stock "no settings changed" Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

Thanks!

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[–] Fjor@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure about the telemetry? Just watched an interview between the CEO and Techlore. And the CEO said that there is strictly no telemetrics..

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

did you expect the company's CEO to say that they spy on you?

[–] Fjor@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

If you've followed the community and the company you get the feel that they're very open, honest and authentic. I've wag he'd multiple interviews and oloowed their CEO for a while, genuinely a guy who wants to make a good and honest browser. Compared to Brave this wins me atleast over. But each to their own.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The one I know about1 is the data being sent every 24 hours with a unique ID that they use to count active users. I'm not sure, I mostly do trust they won't do anything weird with this and use Vivaldi sometimes, I guess it's up to you to decide if you want to continue using.

[–] Fjor@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ah yeah I believe he said that this was the only thing being sent as they did need to know how many people use their browser. But even this, he said was done with a simple ping request, nothing more.