No, Vivaldi is Blink based and has nothing more to do with Chrome, it has maybe to do with an improved de-googled Chromium fork, if you want a definition.
At that point why not just use a fully FOSS project like ungoogled-chromium and avoid doing free advertising for a company that makes money off Amazon kickbacks?
Well, it only receive revenue if you use this links, with it the page see the data from Vivaldi, not the user, which stay anonymous, exept if he interact with the visited page (eg.buying someting in Amazon). You are free to delete all these links if you don`t use these. That is the business model needed to pay the bills and way more ethical as making money selling user data to third parties (surveillance advertising) as other do, Vivaldi don’t track or log your activity, nor send your data to any third party company.
It’s the only way to create the needed incomming (employees, infrastructure, servers, etc) without to compromise the user data and privacy. Vivaldi don’t has extern investors, like others and even Mozilla, supported by Google and another advertising company, or Brave by Facebook and crypto-companies, because won’t lose their independency. Meanwhile there isn’t any NGO or others which work for love of humanity which release a browser for free with all the features Vivaldi has, there isn’t any other system without converting the user itself in a product like other do.
Well un-googled Chromiun is FOSS and can be maintaned by the community, they only have to strip out the Google APIs, not more, they dont have to pay servers for Sync, a free user mail and blog, they do not need to pay the server for the own Mastodon instance which Vivaldi has, developing and maintan all the features it has for 6 different OS, etc…, that can`t be done for free.
Not the same an simple fork of an engine with small minor changes and putting an own logo, it can`t be compared.
No, Vivaldi is Blink based and has nothing more to do with Chrome, it has maybe to do with an improved de-googled Chromium fork, if you want a definition.
At that point why not just use a fully FOSS project like ungoogled-chromium and avoid doing free advertising for a company that makes money off Amazon kickbacks?
Well, it only receive revenue if you use this links, with it the page see the data from Vivaldi, not the user, which stay anonymous, exept if he interact with the visited page (eg.buying someting in Amazon). You are free to delete all these links if you don`t use these. That is the business model needed to pay the bills and way more ethical as making money selling user data to third parties (surveillance advertising) as other do, Vivaldi don’t track or log your activity, nor send your data to any third party company.
It’s the only way to create the needed incomming (employees, infrastructure, servers, etc) without to compromise the user data and privacy. Vivaldi don’t has extern investors, like others and even Mozilla, supported by Google and another advertising company, or Brave by Facebook and crypto-companies, because won’t lose their independency. Meanwhile there isn’t any NGO or others which work for love of humanity which release a browser for free with all the features Vivaldi has, there isn’t any other system without converting the user itself in a product like other do. Well un-googled Chromiun is FOSS and can be maintaned by the community, they only have to strip out the Google APIs, not more, they dont have to pay servers for Sync, a free user mail and blog, they do not need to pay the server for the own Mastodon instance which Vivaldi has, developing and maintan all the features it has for 6 different OS, etc…, that can`t be done for free.
Not the same an simple fork of an engine with small minor changes and putting an own logo, it can`t be compared.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/