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Marsymars on March 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not f...

I use Vivaldi as a secondary/tertiary browser. It's a Chromium fork without the weird ad/crypto-stuff that Brave has or the shady Chinese ownership that Opera now has. (And the Android version seems to be the only browser app that's putting effort into good ChromeOS functionality.) I've never really been clear on why Brave is more popular than Vivaldi.

colordrops on March 7, 2020 [–]

Unlike brave, it wasn't open source last time I checked. Had that changed?

Marsymars on March 7, 2020 | [–]

No: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/

For me, it's still the most acceptable "major" Chromium-based browser.

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