Open Source
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@Ayespy
I only gave him the short version.
It's great that you felt called upon to report on the more detailed version.I wasn't so familiar with some things either.
There were also some new things for me.Thank you
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@johnny004
Hello,
Welcome to the 'Vivaldiverse'.Have fun and maybe also on 'Mastodon' social.vivaldi.net.
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@DonnyTinyHands
Google has a very difficult relationship with Vivaldi.
They harass Vivaldi and my impression after years here and on Mastodon social.vivaldi.net is that they want to flatten little Vivaldi, he's probably a thorn in their side.Vivaldi earns money through clicks on the pages of contractual partners.
Google pays large sums of money to its contractual partners, such as Microsoft, Apple, Firefox, Brave etc. for the use of its search engine.
Vivaldi does not receive a cent from Google.
But it still offers the Google search engine because users expect it.
My recommendation to users is to replace the Google search engine and 'Bing' with another search engine, which Vivaldi also offers.
Vivaldi is a real underdog on the browser market.
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The million dollar question:
Will Vivaldi become the default browser for him?
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@DonnyTinyHands What are your reasons for requiring it to be 100% open source? I'm just curious.
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@barbudo2005 said in Open Source:
The million dollar question:
Will Vivaldi become the default browser for him?
I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight xD
Aside from that, I wanted to say that I don't care at all that Vivaldi isn't 100% open source, even though I'm a big supporter of FOSS. I believe what matters much more is the spirit of the team behind it, certainly much more attentive to users compared to a multinational corporation.
Furthermore, I don't think I'm in any way favoring Google by using Vivaldi since they release the software open-source for purely commercial reasons, and I don't think they want people to be so attracted to other browsers based on their engine, unless they use Google services.
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I think open source offers some really obvious advantages.
One big one is not having to trust anyone. Not that I think there is anything at all unscrupulous about Vivaldi, just given the choice complete transparency is preferable to even the most trusted of sources.
I also think there are pretty obvious security benefits offered by having more people able to review the code.
We do so much in the browser now days that privacy and security are essential. Not something I'll compromise on for appealing looking QOL features or great performance.
I have options for my browser that are open source and work acceptably so that is now just the starting point that a browser absolutely needs to have for me to consider it.
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As @catweazle explained, for security and trust purposes Vivaldi is already open.
@Catweazle said in Open Source:
The only part of Vivaldi that is proprietary is 5% of the script corresponding to its only UI, which is also fully auditable and even modifiable by the user (here in the forum it is taught how to do it).
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@DonnyTinyHands, some nice news about OpenSource and trust
https://apiiro.com/blog/malicious-code-campaign-github-repo-confusion-attack/