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by wayneftw 1956 days ago
I was thinking of switching away from Chrome as well. Was there something about Vivaldi that made you use it instead of Brave?

I don't know much about either one of them except that Brave is (fully?) open source while Vivaldi is not.
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bberenberg 1956 days ago
Chrome is signed into my primary work account. Brave is signed into a shared work account. Vivaldi is doing my personal stuff.

I get that Chrome could do all of these alone with profiles but I prefer having the UX of separate applications for each.

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Theory5 1956 days ago
Brave is built directly on Chrome/Chromium. You still get extensions from the Chrome store. Its underlying functionality is all chrome.

What would that accomplish?

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wayneftw 1955 days ago
> What would that accomplish?

What would what accomplished? Moving off of Chrome to a different Chromium based browser?

Presumably I would retain all the high quality that I enjoy from Chrome while avoiding Googles spyware services. Edge, Brave and others remove them. In the case of Brave I believe I would also get some decent adblocking without having to worry about what Googles eventual Manifest v3 enforcement will do to uBlock Origin.

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