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minus-squarecloudless@artemis.camplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoIs Vivaldi good for privacy? It is closed-source and I don’t understand its business model.
minus-squarethink1984@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoNot according to PrivacyTests.org. It lacks a lot of state partitioning, amongst other things. Just FYI, the front end UI is closed source, but the backend/engine is open source, because they’re just another chromium spin off.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoexactly, there’s a lot of trust involved in using Vivaldi. I don’t know why someone recommends it over Brave in the name of privacy.
Is Vivaldi good for privacy? It is closed-source and I don’t understand its business model.
Not according to PrivacyTests.org. It lacks a lot of state partitioning, amongst other things. Just FYI, the front end UI is closed source, but the backend/engine is open source, because they’re just another chromium spin off.
exactly, there’s a lot of trust involved in using Vivaldi. I don’t know why someone recommends it over Brave in the name of privacy.