Their ads are still far less invasive than Edge or Firefox (and especially the latter). As far as I know the default links are all just typical paid defaults. And yeah, it’s irritating that the ad blocker has those defaults and that they won’t open source more of their stuff. But I still think it’s far better than what other browsers have going currently
Almost all of those are developed part time as hobby or side projects. They aren’t built on the same scale as other commercial browsers, and a few of them aren’t even trying to.
Also, these are all browsers that are deliberately privacy focused, and are made towards a different audience than Vivaldi. Not to mention that advertising isn’t always inherently privacy invasive. It’s just intrusive.
Their ads are still far less invasive than Edge or Firefox (and especially the latter). As far as I know the default links are all just typical paid defaults. And yeah, it’s irritating that the ad blocker has those defaults and that they won’t open source more of their stuff. But I still think it’s far better than what other browsers have going currently
Librewolf, Floorp, Mercury Browser, Mullvad Browser,Tor browser, Ungoogled chromium, Thorium, Falkon, Seamonkey, Ghostery Browser?
Almost all of those are developed part time as hobby or side projects. They aren’t built on the same scale as other commercial browsers, and a few of them aren’t even trying to.
Also, these are all browsers that are deliberately privacy focused, and are made towards a different audience than Vivaldi. Not to mention that advertising isn’t always inherently privacy invasive. It’s just intrusive.
Who said that people ‘need’ to use a commercial browser?