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[–] breadsmasher 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That forum post is about styling the UI. Irrelevant when discussing whether any closed source code is safe. Its not auditable if the code isn’t published.

Data that goes to google .. can be turned off

Can it?

Even if you disable everything under "Google Services" and "Google Extensions" under "Privacy" in settings, it will still make automatic connections to Google

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@breadsmasher @Zerush, modding Vivaldi is certainly about modding the UI part, precisely the suposing "no auditable" proprietary part, the only it has. All other is OpenSource.
Read also the forum discussion about Vivald Spyware in the added link.
Mozilla send user data to Google (Alphabet), Vivaldi don't. Mozilla spyware risk for this? I don't think so.

[–] breadsmasher -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being able to supply custom functionality and css to the UI is not the same as being able to review the UI source code. Not really sure why people are finding that so difficult to understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@breadsmasher, difficult to understand what means auditable? How will you modify a source with unknown content?
Try it with Chrome, EDGE or Opera. Not the same, there is nothing auditable or modificable, at least if you don't use reverse engineering, which in Vivaldi isn't needed. The UI source is the only proprietary script but not hidden, it's simply a license thing.
If it go OpenSource, in the next versión Chrome and Edge will use it and kill with this all other Browser in the market.

[–] breadsmasher -1 points 1 year ago

Talking generally. You can build a system which accepts new source code and styles and applies them.

Think about modding games for example. They are created without access to source code. The developers provide the ability to add new functionality to the system without providing the source code.

Heres the source code for Chromium upon which Chrome is built

https://github.com/chromium/chromium

You can modify chrome, edge, firefox. Plenty of themes and extensions exist. Just because its not a simple css file doesn’t mean it can’t be changed.