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@marialeal moooooom the annoying browser social media managers are fighting again
@lea @marialeal gotta love drama between the okay browser and insufferable closed source chromium slopware
@lea @marialeal @asm vivaldi is especially bad because they brand themselves like an open source, privacy focused option, and then deliver nothing but a ui reskin and a disappointing builtin feed reader / mail client
@hearts @lea @asm @marialeal but at least it's not chrome, edge, opera or brave
@joshix @hearts @lea @asm @marialeal it literally IS chrome.
@solonovamax @lea @asm @marialeal @joshix what do you mean "no"? it's the same underlying technology

@hearts @lea @solonovamax @asm @marialeal yes, both are based on chromium. But that doesn't make them the same.

Vivaldi has open source changes and a proprietary ui on top of chromium.
Google Chrome has proprierary changes on top of chromium.

@joshix @hearts @lea @solonovamax @marialeal they're equally unverifiable, we have no way of knowing whether the proprietary parts include something intrusive or rancid
@asm @hearts @lea @solonovamax @marialeal iirc the proprierary stuff in vivaldi is just some js/html/css which kinda is verifiable