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dijksterhuis | on: Vivaldi 8.0
source code is apparently* available to audit: https://vivaldi.com/source

* on my phone, can’t inspect the tars

mossTechnician | parent | next
Confusingly, that page only provides the changes to the Google Chromium source that allows their UI to run. (I'm not sure it would be easy to discern this without already knowing the source is not fully open.)

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-sou...

brnt | parent
Tarballs every 2 months, and we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.

I don't trust them one bit. There was that telemetry analysis that showed Vivaldi as a very noisy browser.

dijksterhuis | root | parent | next
> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.

how so? how do you know this?

pamcake | root | parent | next
You can test this locally yourself with mitmproxy, opensnitch, or whatever.

You can try building the (supposedly) open-source apps you use from source.

Everyone opining here should MitM themselves every now and then. If not for your own security then maybe to make sure you're not participating in psyop when opining online and resharing hearsay or old truisms.

brnt | root | parent | next
Because they are open about including closed parts. Its not a FLOSS browser.
ekianjo | root | parent
Probably because they update the browser way more often than that
dijksterhuis | root | parent
so it’s not a perfect solution :shrugs: i’ll take imperfect over nothing
yard2010 | root | parent
In comparison to Google Chrome?
zamadatix | root | parent | next
The difference is Chromium feels like Chrome if that's what you want to use and trust, it does not feel like Vivaldi and that's basically all that's provided here.
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