With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Okay I’m going to step into it. I’ve been liking Vivaldi recently as a browser. Is that screwed too because it’s based on chromium? Or am I safe for now?
Well if you’re talking about privacy, then the answer is yes. Vivaldi only collects what pc specs you have or something like that to see how many users day have. Way better than what google chrome does. But I guess yes you are technically supporting the chromium engine monopoly but tbh just use what you like.
It’s fine. People hate on Chromium browsers all the time but ask them why and none of them have any explanation other than “because Google”.
Because they’re planning to cripple ublock and other adblockers in manifest v3? They also made it so that chromium can’t sync with Google accounts anymore. I love vivaldi too and I hope they are able to survive whatever Google is planning.
Except it’s not a monopoly and they don’t have control. It’s an open source project. They provide basic building blocks. Say it with me now: “Chromium-based browsers are not Chrome”.
If that’s your view, you’d better avoid Graphene, Calyx and basically every other mobile OS that isn’t iOS because they’re all built on AOSP.
