Trying to evaluate vivaldi as a possible replacement for floorp (unless firefox reverses its stance on AI, which, very excitingly, is a possibility!).

But the lack of containers in vivaldi is so disorienting. It makes me feel so damn vulnerable because I know that ALL the sites are having a feast sharing my profile and fingerprints with each other. Nasty. It just makes me sick.

#vivaldi #firefox #browser #dataTheft #usersAreFodder

@tchauhan I recently started using Vivaldi, but I'm unfamiliar with this concern. Every browser seems to have downsides so I'm curious how many advantages this cancels out
@SPF If you were not using containers in firefox, please ignore my toot ! Vivaldi has very good UI and is an excellent experience otherwise.

@tchauhan I gather this is a general limitation in Chromium, the Vivaldi team would have to spend a ton of effort to modify the Chromium core to make it work and then, worse, maintain it with every Chromium update.

You can use different user profiles. Not the same thing, I know.

As for sites sharing data, I'm not sure about that (but I don't know if what I think is correct). The point people that ask for containers make is that they want to have the ability to log in to the same site using two different logins at the same time. But as far as I know, also in Chromium site A doesn't have access to the cookie jar of site b.

And of course you can go into the Vivaldi settings and disable third party cookies, and block trackers with the integrated ad and tracker blocker

@WildEnte Vivaldi is a great uix experience. But it is more like a skin/theme. To make a real improvement over chromium a browser will definitely have to propose an improved solution to data isolation :(

https://www.reddit.com/answers/3b6d3cc2-c53e-4d09-be8f-150f784e8faf/?q=Why+is+Chromium+considered+bad+for+privacy%3F&source=PDP