▲ 632 ▼ Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com) submitted 2 years ago by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 266 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] whale@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* And those devs working at Opera that objected to the sale of Opera started Vivaldi, literally “one of the kings of opera” as a competitive browser. It uses chromium under the hood but they’ve made strides in a power user browser. No crypto, built in ad blocking. The only revenue they get in the actual default browser install is that there are like 20 bookmarks to commonly used sites to start, and they have affiliate tags if you keep those bookmarks and use them. Other than that, they’ve turned off chromium’s new DRM features permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* And those devs working at Opera that objected to the sale of Opera started Vivaldi, literally “one of the kings of opera” as a competitive browser. It uses chromium under the hood but they’ve made strides in a power user browser. No crypto, built in ad blocking. The only revenue they get in the actual default browser install is that there are like 20 bookmarks to commonly used sites to start, and they have affiliate tags if you keep those bookmarks and use them. Other than that, they’ve turned off chromium’s new DRM features permalink fedilink source parent