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  • Jon S. von Tetzchnerjon@vivaldi.net
    Oct 14, 2026, 5:47 PM

    @richlv

    Obviously if you ask me, I would say no.

    Webkit and Chromium have their infancy in Europe. It started off in many ways in a building where Opera and Trolltech resided. There is a lot of history there, which takes longer to explain, but I think a strong Vivaldi, based on Chromium, can make a big difference. I say that based on my experience fighting Big Tech over more than 32 years now.

    Mozilla is a Silicon Valley creature. Better than Google, Apple and Microsoft for sure, but if you want to get away from that, there really is only one option.

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  • Rihards Olupsrichlv@mastodon.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 7:41 PM

    @jon Oh, I'm well aware of the meaning of KHTML in many browser UAs, and both happy to see it and sad that the project was not contributed to but forked :)

    Would uBlock Origin work in Vivaldi, or would Vivaldi be completely at the mercy of Google regarding things they do with Chrome/Chromium?

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  • Jon S. von Tetzchnerjon@vivaldi.net
    Oct 14, 2026, 8:35 PM

    @richlv

    I think you will find that things are somewhere in the middle. We have kept uBlock Origin running, but there is likely a limit there. We do plenty of changes to Chromium in general and with more resources we can do more. Vivaldi is a very different browser to Chrome, even though compatibility is more or less the same. This applies to privacy and to the functionality on offer.

    A strong Vivaldi can do even more and thus we work on building Vivaldi.

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