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If it wasn't Chromium, Vivaldi would def be my daily driver. They have a lot of the same ideas of what a browser should be. They've basically recreated OG Opera in the present day. All that's missing is an independent engine. RIP Presto. I realize them being able to develop all these cool features is a result of them handing off the engine work to Google. I wish they could do both
Yes, but Chromium is FLOSS and every company is free to gut the Google sniffings, what Vivaldi is doing, because of this Vivaldi's Chromium base is always behind the current version from Chrome, except security patches. Mozilla depends way more on Google than Vivaldi. There are no third party investors in Vivaldi which can influence decisions of the cooperative.
Has Vivaldi been able to maintain compatibility with uBlock Origin and other addons needing Manifest V3? That seems to be one spot where Google is using its power over the Chromium project for evil.
Vivaldi still support Mv2 as long as possible, but anyway Mv2 will die for all browsers sooner or later, like Mv1 in 2013. Mv3 has a different cookie handling with better privacy, but in adblockers is somewhat more limited in blocking filters. For practical purposes the difference is minimal, AdGuard and Adblock Plus are already Mv3, uBO, due to the intern algorrithm isn't yet compatible with Mv3 and only released an uBO Lite which fullfit Mv3 with the uBO basic functions to block ads and trackers, The inbuild Vivaldi blocker is not affected by the change, it does a perfect work, but is discovered by the anti adblock algorrithm of YT, there the workarround is using the Vivaldi trackingblocker + uBO Lite, which is capable to spoof the adblocker, until the Vivaldi devs solved this issue. Not so easy, because YT change the algorrith pretty often.