Brave has an entire contingent of the FOSS community up in arms. They claim that it is doing more data harvesting than Alphabet, and the EULA prevents anyone from finding out what they are doing with all that data scraping.

I don't have a dog in the fight, other than as a windows user I would like to see FOSS adopted as quickly as possible since they have predicted all this shit for the last 30 years at least.

ETA: I know basically nothing about Vivaldi, though having used it, it seems to function as lightweight as chromium did back in the day. I have no comments on Edge.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 16 points 1 year ago

I mean, brave is an Ad company, I think they're just using an ad blocker to stop other ad services other than their own from competing

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vivaldi is filled with bloat and feature creep to the brim now. They abandoned that "lightweight" philosophy ages ago.

[–] ZarK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Only if you want it (yes you still need to download a larger package).

Vivaldi is created by the former creator of Opera, with sort of the same goals it used to have: care for the power user. They are up for adding any customization and power user tool if people want it. It has never tried to be as lightweight as possible. Instead, it should be one of the most customizable and feature rich browsers out there.

It’s great, as I can add and remove features so it’s tailored to me.

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Gosh, the more I hear about Brave the worse it gets....

[–] eochaid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just to add the missing comment about Edge - MS is turning into the Microsoft version of Chrome. They removed Google's ad bs and replaced it with their own ad and monetization bs.