Questions about the Closed-Source Nature of Vivaldi

I thought here aren’t so many beginners.
But yeah, you’re right, gonna correct it.
TY

I especially wouldn’t recommend a proprietary password manager rofl.

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When you’re a community around a proprietary product, that is called working for free, not volunteering or contributing.

Why do you say this?

Because I’m not in denial.

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Would threat model not play apart in here? I’m trying to understand this conflict… I get that we’re on a medium thats privacy focused, but to each their own.

But why!?

Vivaldi is inferior to Brave in every single possible privacy aspect and then has the gall to make it proprietary.
And then they somehow managed to convince people that it is a good thing.

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It’s not community based. It’s a for-profit corporate browser.

It might have a community around it, but it’s still very much a commercial product.

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Volunteering is an elective and freely chosen act of an individual or group giving their time and labor, often for community service. (Volunteering - Wikipedia)

Contributing: to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people (CONTRIBUTING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary)

OK, I understand that I didn’t formulate that correctly: what I meant was that it listens to its community, unlike other browsers which only do what they think is better for them to get even more money.

Privacy is very important, but it’s not the single aspect when speaking about software.

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Sir this is a forum called PrivacyGuides… privacy is the main thing for people are here for. Go to r/browsers or something if you want to talk about Vivaldi.

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Oh, forgot that :slight_smile: