Hello all! I’ve been making the switch from American to European tech, and was wondering your thoughts on Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine.
Vivaldi is based on Chromium and iirc not fully open source, but is still suggested in European tech spaces, and has a pretty good privacy policy.
Qwant is not open source, though claims to not to sell personal data or store searches.
What are your thoughts and perhaps suggestions for alternatives?
Chromium is still controlled by Google though, and they way it benefits them is giving them market share and user base. It’s not as direct as using Google, but indirectly still benefits them to have such massive market share with chromium that they can do whatever they want with it. See:manifest v3 and working against adblockers
I don’t really see how that can be the case when Chromium is open-source, though I’m admittedly not very knowledgeable on this subject.
It’s because Google are the main contributors to it, and as such have a lot of power over the directions it goes.
Here’s a somewhat decent article I randomly found that explains it a bit better than I can
https://medium.com/@lowharris15/master-of-the-web-how-google-rules-the-internet-with-chromium-65c9e10bd7dd
Ohhh, thank you for the information! I’ll look into something like Waterfox then.