"Websites made with Google Business Profiles are basic websites powered by the information on your Business Profile. In March 2024, websites made with Google Business Profiles will be turned off and customers visiting your site will be redirected to your Business Profile instead. The redirect will work until June 10, 2024."
“Don’t be evil” isn’t meaning that Google won’t be evil, it is a threat to the user. “Be good and obedient, don’t block ads and trackers, it’s healthier for you”
Testing out #VivaldiSnapshot on #iOS
Also one thing I want to mention is if Vivaldi will change Chrome UI from it’s menus. I’d like to see Vivaldi to make its own UI for future updates. @Vivaldi@vivaldi_browser
Keine Ahnung, mir ist es bis jetzt nicht aufgefallen. Das müsstest du besser im Forum oder in Mastodon nachfragen, hier in Lemmy ist es kein ofizieller Kanal von Vivaldi wo auch die Devs mitmachen.
Apart the information is wrong, the Google attempt with WEI DRM has nothing to do with the browser engine, it’s a web API wich give the webs the ability to block any browser, be it Chromium, Gecko or WebKit, if it does not include a Google token that “certifies security”. That is, it doesn’t matter if you use Firefox, Safari or any other, if it doesn’t have this token, Game over. Such nonsense on the part of Google cannot be allowed. It is legitimate that web pages are given a tool to protect themselves, but it cannot depend on a commercial company to decide which browser deserves this token and which does not, this should by far depend on an independent technological institution. Let’s see if this has been made clear once and for all.
That Vivaldi hasn’t enhanced safe browsing, you can select it in the settings, if you want and you can see in the screenshot. Firefox has it established, it is called Firefox Safe Browsing, same with Safari, but all these are the safe browsing API from Google, also in Vivaldi, in which you have the posibility to desactivate it, because it isn’t really needed, it has filters in the inbuild ad/trackerblocker which do the same (include Filterlists from ABP, uBO, DDG and you can add others, if you want), without this Google API. I think it’s good enhanced, and without the obligation of having to use this Google thing.
Browserleaks say other things, websites know my Public IP (this from the ISP central server), when I don’t us an VPN, almost all other data, apart of screen resolution, The OS is shown wrong (Windows32), also most other data are wrong or n/d, which give also wrong fingerprints, or fingerprints of millon other users, The adblocker isn’t even detected, because of the anti-adblock filters. Anyway, both Vivaldi and the Defender in Windows make it impossible to download infected files, they are blocked in the moment. Extensions, well, I can use them, eg.Trace for Fingerprint spoofing/randomizing, but then most of the pages I visit don’t work or don’t work as hey should. Thids with the safe browsing it’s always a compromise between too much and too little and I think I have it pretty balanced. For this reason I only use the Site Bleacher extension, Nitter Redirect, Link-Unshorten and some specific ones not related to security and privacy (graphic Tools, informations, etc.).
Firefox is certainly a good alternative to Chrome and Google (despite the relationship it has with this moloch), but Vivaldi too. Vivaldi use Blink, but with this ends any similarity or relationship with Chrome and Google. And speaking about Privacy, FF is is not much better (at least if you don’t sync with Mozilla, which share data with Alphabet.Inc).
Vivaldi don’t share nothing to third parties, because it don’t have third party investors and don’t make money with surveillance advertising. In customization Vivaldi is Lightyears above any other Browser without any doubts. You can change anything in Vivaldi, Menu’s, UI, Icons and much more, or use one of the more than 4.000 Themes, created by the users
The only you can say is, that the alternatives to Chrome and Edge are running out, of more than 100 browsers that currently exist, only Firefox (maybe also some not too much outdated forks), Vivaldi and perhaps Otter Browser, remain as usable, nothing else.
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
This new invention from Google has nothing to do with the browser you use. It is an API incorporated into, with Google affiliates and its own, web pages, which allows these pages to block any browser “for security reasons”, when it does not have a Google Token incorporated, that accredits it as secure. That is, it is then Google itself who decides which browser is worthy to access the web. It doesn’t matter which browser you use, or incorporate this Token in it, or forget about a large part of the internet and anyway about any Google page or service (Gmail, YouTube, GDrive, GoogleMaps, …). This is the danger that the free internet faces, that Google decides which browser is worth using and which is not, being able to allow only Chrome itself as the only valid browser to access half of the pages on the network, and Game over for everyone else, Chromium, Gecko, WebKit or any other, without Google Token in it no internet, except if some geek comes up with some Fake Token which can be used (complicated)🤬.
For the downvoters, also Firefox and forks need to insert this Google Token in the Browser or die. Because of this Mozilla, Vivaldi and several others have started a protest before the legislator to prevent this crap. In the EU there is already a debate whether or not this is compatible with GDPR and user rights. We’ll see what comes of this. It is legitimate that Google provides tools to web pages to protect against entries from bots and insecure browsers, but it is not legitimate that the decision which browser is secure and which is not, depends on this company, only a certificate from an independent technical institution can be valid on technical grounds and not by Google itself for possible commercial reasons.