ill be in the strong minority here, and it should be opt-in, but if theres no affiliate link, i would be ok with my tiny marketshare browser capturing the extra. less ethical for them to be replacing other peoples affiliate links, but they are also blocking ads ... so, not exactly the most purely ethical product in the world anyway.
Vivaldi claims they don't collect data from "Direct Match"
No way to verify this claim is true but that's beside the point. It's another web browser sending traffic to it's own servers
Vivaldi is Chromium-based
This week an "I'm quitting" blog post from a former Mozilla employee was on the HN front page. He more or less recommended Vivaldi, i.e., Chromium
The problem of advertising is not solved by choice of browser vendor where _all_ the vendors are trying to make money from ad services, partnerships with Google, affiliate marketing, cryptocurrency, etc.
"Not as bad as Chrome" is a pathetically low bar to meet
These browsers take longer to compile than an operating system. Absurd complexity and vulnerability
The Vivaldi default settings are just as bad as any other so-called "modern" browser, i.e., they have to be changed
It's a fool's errand to compare these browsers to each other. They have far more similarities than differences. They all suck