source code is apparently* available to audit: https://vivaldi.com/source
* on my phone, can’t inspect the tars
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...
https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser
Someone mirrored it.
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.
> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.
how so? how do you know this?
Because they are open about including closed parts. Its not a FLOSS browser.
Probably because they update the browser way more often than that
so it’s not a perfect solution :shrugs: i’ll take imperfect over nothing
In comparison to Google Chrome?
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...
https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser
Someone mirrored it.
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.
> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.
how so? how do you know this?
Because they are open about including closed parts. Its not a FLOSS browser.
Probably because they update the browser way more often than that
so it’s not a perfect solution :shrugs: i’ll take imperfect over nothing
In comparison to Google Chrome?