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Vivaldi > Brave
Just use Firefox
I mean, yes, I daily drive Firefox myself. If one must have a Chromium-based browser, however, Vivaldi is very much not-Google, very much not crypto, and is all around pretty based. It's a solid choice for a secondary "I'm going to need something chromium on rare occasions" browser.
Why not Ungoogled Chromium? Yes it doesn't have the customizations but at least it's not proprietary afaik
I don't know if this has changed, but last time I used Ungoogled Chromium, I recall the UI still referred to Google and/or its services in many areas, even if the underlying code's removal made those areas nonfunctional. Google's name is also still right in the browser title, like free advertising every time I look at it, and that bothers me as well.
I mean, why should the team bother so much with removing the UI elements? As a former developer I can tell that it's not that easy. And where did you see Google in the title? I don't remember seeing it in the last 2 years
Closed source
Not in actual privacy tests. And Brave is at least mostly open source. Not great either when compared to a good FF config, Firefox+arkenfox and ublock medium
Not a brave employee and barely affiliated with them. Also Firefox browsers come out on top still. Vivaldi is missing much of the fingerprint disception features of Brave or Firefox. It is also closed source meaning it isn't a good choice for privacy anyways. All around a shit take when it is obvious Vivaldi isn't built for anti-fingerprinting. I am by no means a supporter of Brave, I stay far away from it and its shit.
Does that change the fact that Vivaldi is not a good privacy browser? Its content blocker is weak, its based on chromium which is affected by MV3, it can't protect screen dimension fingerprinting, or canvas fingerprinting, or containerize cookies, or block 3rd party scrips and frames, or standardize specific settings like Firefoxes RFP, etc. Not a good privacy browser. Use a fully open source browser.