I have used Brave for a while and like it. The only problem is that it's a downstream fork of Chromium. Not a worry to me but I can understand why people wouldn't like that.
Their search is pretty good too, for general topics. It's not as complete as Google but it's getting better and Google is progressively getting worse* so they'll eventually be at parity.
(*It's fucking broken in fact. Just yesterday I searched for something at Google Images and there was literally 1 image result. The regular search page returned a hundred links. But somehow those links didn't make it to Images...?)
"When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup."
Which browser did you have in mind?
I have used Brave for a while and like it. The only problem is that it's a downstream fork of Chromium. Not a worry to me but I can understand why people wouldn't like that.
Their search is pretty good too, for general topics. It's not as complete as Google but it's getting better and Google is progressively getting worse* so they'll eventually be at parity.
(*It's fucking broken in fact. Just yesterday I searched for something at Google Images and there was literally 1 image result. The regular search page returned a hundred links. But somehow those links didn't make it to Images...?)
Google is de-listing massive chunks of the internet. I don't know if it's ideological, SEO $$/adoption extortion or maybe a bit of both.
Images sucks so bad now.
Then you should try out Pale Moon.
Then you don't want Vivaldi, at all. https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/
"When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup."
That seems extremely tame if that's the worst thing they do.
It does put paid to them being about Privacy. It's also a google chromium browser and continues to prop up their monopoly.
Let me know how it goes. I've been using Brave for a while and I was considering switching.