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Vivaldi as alternative? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Old Vivaldi user here. Vivaldi is quite lacking in privacy, and chromium made it worse to use over the years. I would not recomend it.

You would be better off with Librewolf, if you want a more fancy fork you can try Floorp (silly name I know), it's quite similar to Vivaldi regarding customisation and options.

Or you could try Zen..but as far as I am aware it's still in alpha, lack some options, especially regarding privacy so may be not the best (you can still edit the about:config though). I keep trying it again and again, only to be disapointed because it's still too fresh.