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by portmanteaufu12 hours ago |
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upvoteby dijksterhuis12 hours ago|
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source code is apparently* available to audit: https://vivaldi.com/source

* on my phone, can’t inspect the tars

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upvoteby mossTechnician7 hours ago|
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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...

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upvoteby brnt11 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby dijksterhuis11 hours ago|
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> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.

how so? how do you know this?

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upvoteby pamcake1 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby brnt9 hours ago|
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Because they are open about including closed parts. Its not a FLOSS browser.
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upvoteby ekianjo11 hours ago|
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Probably because they update the browser way more often than that
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upvoteby dijksterhuis10 hours ago|
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so it’s not a perfect solution :shrugs: i’ll take imperfect over nothing
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upvoteby yard201010 hours ago|
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In comparison to Google Chrome?
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upvoteby zamadatix2 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby dgellow12 hours ago|
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Im not sure I understand their business model. I don’t see any paid offering on their website
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upvoteby newscombinatorY12 hours ago|
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Took 2 seconds to startpage* this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

*screw Google and their AI search

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upvoteby dgellow11 hours ago|
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Guess I’m blind, I somehow missed it… thanks!

So the answer seems to be:

- search partnerships

- direct match partnerships

- bookmarks partnerships

- donation

- cut when people sign up for advertised products (proton vpn, not sure if others)

Or at least that was the case in 2019

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upvoteby zamadatix12 hours ago|
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Search engine deals are HUGE for browsers. They're e.g. what has funded Mozilla with many billions over the last 20 years. Mozilla has tried to diversify but everything else has pales in comparison (and the donations are basically a joke).

It scales up with usage as well. Not that Safari needed funding, but Google pays Apple upwards of $20,000,000,000 per year for the privilege of being the default for that user base.

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upvoteby phs318u11 hours ago|
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A lot of people might think $20B is a lot to pay. But search (and “other”) account for over half (>$200B) the of Alphabet’s total revenue from all sources. It’s still a bargain when you consider how few people bother to (or are even aware of the possibility of) changing their default browser.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/googl/metrics/revenue-by-se...

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