Paul Cantrell1d ago

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737

Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.

Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.

Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.

Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.

Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.

In short, you have choices!

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@inthehands but... Vivaldi is still based on chromium, and google will remove all the code required for effective ad blocker to work

maybe built-in blocker will still work, but no uBlock 

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Show threadEggs now in different baskets.1d ago

@mo @inthehands uBO still installed on Vivaldi 8+ here and still working.

Vivaldi's built in ad and tracker blocker uses the same blocklists as uBO. The built in blocker worked on the Android version of Vivaldi as well the last time I used it.

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@the_wub not for long I guess. In theory, Vivaldi could support their fork of chromium with manifest V2, but in practice maintaining a browser engine is hella hard & costly

and they can't just keep using old chromium version for security reasons

@inthehands

Show threadEggs now in different baskets.1d ago

@mo @inthehands It seems that the current #Vivaldi release is based on the current stable #Chromium release.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-seven-8-0/

Minor update (7) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 8.0

This update includes a minor upgrade to Chromium 148 (Extended Stable Release) from upstream, which in turn includes security fixes from Chromium 149.

Vivaldi Browser