Technology @lemmy.world Kyle Judd @lemmy.autism.place 4 days ago

What browser is better: DuckDuckGo or Vivaldi?

My current browser is DuckDuckGo because I like to use it to protect my privacy on the Web.

I heard word about Vivaldi being a popular browser for Fediverse users but I never tried it.

I’m not sure which one is necessarily better.

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Firefox and its derivatives are the only browsers that challenge Google's monopoly on browser engines and prevent them from making unilateral changes to all web browsers based on them, including Vivaldi. DuckDuckGo is a good search engine though.
- I used Libre Wolf to challenge Mozilla too... somewhat.
- Welllll I mean technically webkit is totally separate from chromes blink fork for the last several years. I.e. browers like safari and gnome's epiphany. That said, safari is mac/iOS only and epiphany sucks ass so...
  
  Fair enough. GNOME Web is the only cross platform non Blink or Gecko browser, and like you say it has flaws compared to those two, such as lack of extension support.
- Duck gets results from bing. I honestly had to switch to Searx. Can’t stand not finding stuff anymore
  
  SearX is aggregator that get results mostly from Google...
  
  Still my go to but people should know this fact.
To echo @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you should give LibreWolf a look. It's based on Firefox, but with the telemetry disabled and the default settings set in a way that best protects your privacy.

One adjustment I faced when switching to it was that, by default, LibreWolf deletes all cookies upon exiting, which was annoying for sites I want to stay logged into (e.g. my email). But you can either turn that off, or click on the lock icon in the address bar and tell LibreWolf to save cookies for that site, which is what I did- and WOW DO I LOVE IT! Bonus perk is that it breaks nag windows on sites that keep track of how many articles you've read.
- That’s nice.
I'm using different browsers for different use cases. LibreWolf for general day to day browsing

Waterfox for background streams stuff where I log into accounts, its a choice not to cross contaminate these

Mullvad Browser for everything grey area-ish

Mull on phone with incognito icon and deleting everything on closing for day to day browsing

Firefox Beta for logging in to accounts where closing doesn't delete credentials

Everything is equipped with at least ublock origin and different modes of no script ranging from default mullvad browser config, to super strict allow per side and script basis in LibreWolf
@VanHalbgott Browser?

Vivaldi with DuckDuckGo as search engine.
- D’oh!
Neither. Just use something like Librewolf on the computer and Mull on the phone. No need to use the browser of a search engine closely partnered with Bing. Vivaldi is chromium based, which means you will be supporting the monopoly of Google. Vivaldi is also not fully open source.
I wouldn't use either as they both use google's browser engine. They're just two flavours of Chrome.
Vivaldi, if you want customization.
Don't use Vivaldi.
Better for what? DDG probably better for privacy as Vivaldi doesn’t really makes any promises around protecting your privacy.

Yet I’m using Vivaldi and really enjoying it. Built in Mail, Calendar and RSS works great. Tabs nested inside tabs is also great. So if you are into that kind of bells and whistles, give it a shot.

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