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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 3 years ago (6 children)

The writer is proposing Vivaldi, a closed-source browser, as an alternative to Brave, which is free and open-source. I think a better alternative would be Ungoogled Chromium.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Or.... Firefox

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 years ago

Sure, but Firefox uses a different engine. On my systems, I always have both: a Mozilla-based browser as primary and a Chromium-based browser as secondary. If a site doesn't work on one, it'll work on the other.

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[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I'm against ungoogled-chromium. I used it for a while and it feels like someone took a sledgehammer and smashed up all the Google parts without cleaning up afterwards. I stopped using it mainly because of security concerns.

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