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A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m looking into Firefox alternatives as I wanna see what’s available. Being Norwegian, Vivaldi seems like a good choice to replace Firefox on desktop and Safari on iOS. Tried it for a night and it works pretty good. I do however have reservations about it being based on Chromium.

How much power does Google actually have over Vivaldi? And would it actually matter for my quest for degoogling myself?

In case anyone’s wondering. I’m also looking into LibreWolf.

Edit: Rewrote the start as people got too hung up on Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I originally switched to Ecosia, loved it. Very identical to Chrome because, well, it's chromium based. Still a food option, but I wanted to make a full swap.

So I reluctantly tried Vivaldi last week (with Ecosia as a search engine), because that's 2 major changes to a browser this year, meaning migrating all data and setting stuff up, which is more bothersome than I have patience for under normal circumstances.

Yet, I must say I'm positively surprised by it. Loving Vivaldi so far, and I'm not even using all it has to offer.