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by belter 1629 days ago
Vivaldi is the better option. Please change my mind.
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Closed source is a deal-breaker for some of us.
Fair comment. However Vivaldi provides this https://vivaldi.com/source/

And I guess if you just download Brave you dont know from which source code was built.

> And I guess if you just download Brave you dont know from which source code was built.

You have pretty good guarantees.

Vivaldi's UI is much, much slower on the desktop, at least in Linux.
This is about Brave. Change my mind Vivaldi is better if you want to assert your opinion.

Tor, Webtorrent support are nice. Not sure if Vivaldi does this.

edit: No I doubt it's about someone's emotional hissy fit post w/ 18.1k views and 31 likes.

Maybe its the issue of trust? https://community.brave.com/t/why-i-stopped-using-brave-brow...

Edit: No really...its the issue of trust to start with:

"On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users type a URL of Binance into the address bar, which earns Brave money. Further research revealed that Brave redirects the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites, too. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting..."

"Controversies" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...