Yeah, I am a long time Vivaldi user myself. Up until now at least. I am quite happy with it, but from what I read, it has it deficits.

Thank you for correcting me on that :) I’ll remember it.

A discussion like this is exactly the reason I love this sub. I am learning more and more every day. Thanks to both of you guys.

Thanks for the advice, and thanks for the mentioning if 4Get. I just read about it. Awesome project.

Considering that already. Do you experience any problems or limitations with that? Like being flagged as a bot, or sites returning errors?

Edit: thank you for the suggestion!

Not everyone has the technical insight level of an IT professional. Thats why I love this community. Most people give you really solid advice. Thanks to everyone at this point!

Mostly big corporate, big tech, and the US gov’t and its intelligence services. I am already in the process of migrating my digital environment towards Linux + self-hosting, but browsing remains a challenge to me.

Basically: I don’t want my devices location, metadata and telemetry to be tracked by anyone.

bc someone might still be dependent on certain services that he or she wasnt able to replace just yet.

Also: “perfect” is a the arch-enemy of “good”. Every bit of de-americanization, de-corporatification counts, and comments like yours somewhat disencourage people to even begin the journey. Bc “why even degoogle my OS, if I cant degoogle from that one since particular service 🤷”. It’s the same reason some people are not fighting climate change. Why care for my CO2 emission, if India or China wont budge?" We wont score perfect, so I wont even try."

That concept is called Practical Utilitarism

Did he say that? :o

This is creepy as hell. I liked the Renault 5 - until now. Fuck this shit. I wont pay a small fortune, just to enslave myself to a 1984-style digital panopticon. I am getting angry just by reading your story. Corporate greed is once again crossing the line, slowly shifting the overtone window. Everyone who is not concerned about this, is simply ignorant and/or borderline stupid.

If it was my car, I’d probably cover it. And if it then starts beeping, I’d maybe even locate the speaker and deactivate that one, too.

I wonder if it is even legal to sell you something like this without informing you prior to your purchase.

My GF uses Flo. Can you elaborate why it is spyware? Who is spying? What data are being collected?

Edit: nvm, I was too stupid to see the hidden drop down text

Can’t say anything about the browser, but honestly that name is ridiculous. You literally just need to drop a letter and you are left with Spermium.

At least these kids are safe now and noone will experience any trade off from this policy /s