I am in the minority position of never having trusted Google or Mozilla and that largely intuitive stance only grows increasingly correct as the corroborating evidence piles up.

My daily driver is Vivaldi. I trust Vivaldi the company far more than I will ever trust either of the above corps. I trust the people making Vivaldi. They might make choices I disagree with but they’re always open about why those choices were made, have never lied, never sneaked a feature out without telling people, don’t want to control the internet, don’t track you and above all give you up-front Choice on the understanding that all humans need the respect of being fully informed and able to craft their own workflows.

They were the first browser company to set up a presence on the Fediverse when that ‘blew up’ in ‘22. They run free community spaces for blogging. They provide free and private email. Their browser handles email, calendar and RSS feeds. They have syncable clients for Android and IOS, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux.

They offer so much it frustrates me that the wider tech community only ever seem to seek reasons not to like them/the browser when there is usually far more evidence not to trust Brave/Chrome/Firefox/whatever. Yes, it requires trusting a private, for-profit company (😱). Yes, it requires not being an open-source purist (Vivaldi is 95% open source) and Yes it’s built on Chromium (with a LOT of Chromium code deactivated/removed) but I don’t believe there’s another browser company out there looking out for your interests as much as Vivaldi do.

#Vivaldi #Browser #WhoDoYouTrust