this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
-5 points (33.3% liked)
Vivaldi Browser
764 readers
1 users here now
A community for Vivaldi - the private, customizable and powerful browser.
Rules
- Stay on topic
- Behave yourself
- No trolling, spamming etc.
- Follow lemmy.ml's code of conduct
Useful Links
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Vivaldi is based on Google's Chromium. If you want a Google alternative try a Firefox based browser.
FF a Google alternative? LOL, it was once in the past, before he made a contract with the devil, now every visit to Mozilla sends data to Alphabet, googletagmanager and googleanalytics. Did you know that there are Google devs working on FF in Mozilla, eg Ben Goodger? That Google is the main sponsor of Mozilla? Chromium is from Google, but it is also FOSS, and with this each company is free to gut it from Google APIs, which Vivaldi does, which also does not depend on external sponsors and even less on Google.
It's not the browser's fault for sending data to Google tag manager... It's a website's fault.
At least with a non-chrome browser you can install uBlock and protect your self more than a chrome browser could.
Why take the chance?
Vivaldi has an inbuild ad/trackerblocker, customizable, by default it uses uBO, ABP and DDG filters, in mine it blocks even Cookie advices and anti-adblock Pop-ups and some Paywalls.. Zero "Phone-home" to Google in the Browser, nor in the website, no Alphabet, googleanalytics or googletagmanager. European browser full GDPR compliant, made by an European employees-owned cooperative.