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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vivaldi? Trusting a closed sourced application for privacy? What?

Not even defending brave here, just weird that the author say that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never understand why people prefer Vivaldi over, let's say, Chrome. I personally use FF with hardened security, but if I had no chance, I'd rather give my data to Google, not a browser company with an unknown business model and bloat.

Vivaldi is weird, I once talked with their CEO over on Mastodon (they are active there, which is a good sign, probably), it still felt shady, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Vivaldi exclusive for the tab stacks. As soon as another browser has tab stacks (preferably more than 2 levels) I'll switch.

[–] uranibaba 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Arc might have what you need. I have not heard about it before until today but it looks interesting. https://arc.net/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It appears to be available only on MacOS, with no plan for Linux yet. It does sound like something to keep an eye on, thanks.

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

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=hEhybUXtHkU

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] WereCat 2 points 1 year ago

Because Vivaldi has a ton of power user features that Chrome lacks

[–] Huhni 1 points 1 year ago

There is no other chromium based browser that supports custom css, so I have no choice but to use Vivaldi.