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Vivaldi is pretty good, just ignored because it's not opensource. It does not come across as Chrome/Brave evil.
I use Vivaldi alongside Firefox. And yes, Vivaldi is great. It has a really really nice tab management system which I really wish was on Firefox. Otherwise it's very fast and very customisable. I recommend to at least give it a solid try.
Although not OpenSource it is Source Available: https://vivaldi.com/source/
Is it chrominium or gecko based, or something completly different
Honestly, I use FF as my primary on Linux, and Waterfox as my primary on Windows (just because it runs better than FF on Windows fir some reason). Vivaldi I use as a secibdary browser when:
- I need to visist a website that for some stupid reason doesn't open on FF
- When I'm studying or need to have several tabs open at the same time (by several I mean 100+, Vivaldi has really good tab management)
EDIT: I sent the reply without answering the question, I'm dumb. Anyways, some people like Vivaldi, some don't. If you ask in a Privacy forum (and especially Lemmy) you will find less favorable opinions of Vivaldi.
My suggestion at the end of the day is just try it out and try to make your own research on how it was created and who is in charge. As I've undestood until now (don't know if it has changed) is that the only thing proprietary about Vivaldi is the design(? Idk, someone correct me if I'm wrong) and that the CEO is not an.asshole (yet)
Vivaldi is decent IMO but there are some telemetry some might find distracting. BTW, are you using Windows? What do you mean there's no easy way to update Ungoogled Chromium?
Then maybe I can make you discover a very nice tool : Winget or chocolatey whichever you want to use. They both can be used in cli.
However, I personally like the WingetUI software. Nice looking and supports winget, chocolatey, scoop and other. It also automatically checks for updates. It can either give you a notification, or maybe even auto update. Tho I'm not sure if it would solve your complete reinstall each time.
To install wingetUI : Search for powershel > open without administrator privilege > type "winget install wingetui" > enter. Follow and read.
Once installed you ca launch it and choose the sources (I recommend selecting winget and chocolatey at least, I like winget better than chocolatey as version numbers are closer to the real one). it also auto updates on launch.
And to install it, just search for it :
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You can also install though winget or chocolatey without wingetui, but you'll have to update manually through the cli.
Are you sure about the telemetry? Just watched an interview between the CEO and Techlore. And the CEO said that there is strictly no telemetrics..
The one I know about1 is the data being sent every 24 hours with a unique ID that they use to count active users. I'm not sure, I mostly do trust they won't do anything weird with this and use Vivaldi sometimes, I guess it's up to you to decide if you want to continue using.
Unsure why DDG isn't mentioned but they work well for me across devices.
It seems as though it was more a part of the Bing deal. In that MS said you can have Bing if you allow Bing and LinkedIn trackers. DDG were then able to negotiate a subsequent agreement that now blocks those trackers.
The failure to disclose the original MS tracker deal is slightly concerning but personally when I use DDG and just clear everything each session anyway and for the most part use Firefox with extensions for anything needing logins.
I use vivaldi as my secondary browser and its honestly really nice, and has an absolute ton of extra features to play around with, the settings menu is impressive.
