Hi everyone, with the whole Firefox ToS change and it’s fingerprinting I asked on mastodon if anyone could recommend a web browser alternative to Firefox and was recommend to go with Vivaldi due to their no fingerprinting, and allowing unlock to still work even though it uses manifest v3.
I am already switching to librefox on windows, and fence on android.
But I wanted to ask if the claims for vivaldi where true?
You want to switch from a free and open source browser to a proprietary browser and think this will improve your privacy?
I’m not, please read my post. I’m just asking a question
you can’t use uBlock with Vivaldi
That’s what I was assuming, but wanted to confirm. Thanks
It works just fine actually, the full (non-lite) version. For how long is still a question but the Vivaldi devs are keeping manifest v2 support alive for now.
Yes you can. I have it installed and it’s running fine.
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not the same ☞ Filtering capabilities which can’t be ported to MV3
Vivaldi is not open source. For me that’s a no-go
If you want to defend against fingerprinting, you should use multiple browsers to segment your browsing activity, not depend on one browser to have some kind of Wunderwaffen against fingerprinting. The idea is to not have your real identity tied to parts of your browsing activity that you want to keep private.
Personally, I do use Vivaldi as one of my browsers. I use it for accessing Apple services (e.g. iCloud Drive and Mail), but it is not one of my main browsers.
I’m just some rando with no expertise to speak of … but … I just installed Vivaldi on Android and went to
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org and https://amiunique.org/fingerprint.After testing Vivaldi, they both say it has a unique fingerprint.
Do these sites really tell the fingerprint story or is there more to it?
Old Vivaldi user here. Vivaldi is quite lacking in privacy, and chromium made it worse to use over the years. I would not recomend it.
You would be better off with Librewolf, if you want a more fancy fork you can try Floorp (silly name I know), it’s quite similar to Vivaldi regarding customisation and options.
Or you could try Zen…but as far as I am aware it’s still in alpha, lack some options, especially regarding privacy so may be not the best (you can still edit the about:config though). I keep trying it again and again, only to be disapointed because it’s still too fresh.
LibreWolf is a decent alternative. I switched to it a while ago as Firefox enshittification required more and more tweaks in configuration to close leaks.
I’ve heard good things about Mullvad browser too especially on fingerprint resistance, but LibreWolf works for me well enough to not search for alternatives.
For rare sites that I need to use and which don’t work in Firefox based browsers, I just use Brave.
Mulvad is cool cause it uses most if not all protection that tor uses but for the regular web. It was made in partnership with tor after all
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So, what I’m reading here is that tab groups are better than privacy.
