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Not only that, Firefox and Firefox-Based browser are at least 2x times slower than any chromium based browser. Vivaldi is not as quick as plain Chrome, but at least it mitigateas the privacy concerns of normal Google Chrome

I still have full uBlock origin installed and it works. Vivaldi comes with an adblocker though, but I disable it since I use uBlock Origin

The company seems legit. Moreover they are very transparent about their business model, or at least enough to be trustable. I am not against Proprietary software per se, I just dislike AI Slop and value when companies respect me as a user. You got a point about the Firefox Forks though

Once I saw AI being integrated into Firefox, my trust towards the Mozilla Foundation dropped permanently. I have now switched over to Vivaldi which is an amazing European browser that kinda mimics Opera in many ways (but without the spyware ofc)