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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 05:39:48 JST Tim Chambers

   • Vivaldi

   I am still awaiting someone to explain how this isn't akin to the past non-browser projects Mozilla attempted and then dropped: feels like they would be far better served focuisng in speed and privacy and build a browser folks would pay for rather than pivoting to AI and data collection... One other reason I moved to being a @Vivaldi user...

   https://www.howtogeek.com/mozilla-orbit-ai-summarize-articles-videos-firefox/

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 06:15:39 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Michael Santaly

     @wonkothesane @Vivaldi It uses the Chromium browser engine, but none of the other Chrome privacy invasive tech. They own their own skin and tech around the open source but Chromium and Google influenced HTML renderer.

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     Michael Santaly (wonkothesane@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 06:15:40 JST Michael Santaly

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     • Vivaldi

     @tchambers @Vivaldi Is Vivaldi built on Chrome? Literally the only reason I still use Firefox

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 06:39:38 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Vivaldi
     • Michael Santaly
     • Nathan A. Stine

     @stinerman @wonkothesane @Vivaldi I get that. I'd prefer a pure open source solution too, but not a show stopper feature for me. Also I get why from a biz standpoint:

     https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

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     Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 06:39:39 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     • Vivaldi
     • Michael Santaly

     @wonkothesane my major problem with Vivaldi is that it's not open source. Otherwise it seems like a fine browser.

     @tchambers @Vivaldi