Not because the lack of alternateves, even from the EU

https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensource&origin=eu

Despite https://www.neowin.net/news/vivaldi-browser-picked-as-the-default-browser-in-the-mercedes-cle-coup/

China is currently world leader by far in eolic and sustainable energy

China has an exhaustive control over the people even on internet (the great Firewall, because this everybody use an VPNm even Schools), but apart of this, the people have way more civil rights and services as those from the US. It isn’t a democracy, but also by far not an bloody dictatorship as people say. In the Vivaldi forum we have a lot of users from China since a lot of years. “China is bad” is a pure falacy.

https://www.thepackablelife.com/travel/journal/living-in-china

China as commercial partner is way more reliable as the USA, apart the EU has finally approved Mercosur, creating with it the biggest common market in the world. The USA will lose all commercial partners in the future if they continue with their policies. The only problem is that there are still EU countries to submissive with the USA (Germany and some eastern countries).

Meanwhile the USA on the way to an civil war

Vivaldi, the only decent Chromium and from the EU (Norway), green energy server in Iceland (Geothermic energy)

Also a possibility as others more. OSS always can have an paid model.

If it was for money, there are also Paid OSS, not all OSS is free to use. Anyway since nowadays a huge part of OSS is developed by Google, M$, Fakebook, Amazon and other Big Corporations, it turns more important as looking if the source of the product is readable, to look for the ethics, transparency and its community, not always advisable in OSS.

I use Vivaldi and Zen

Not so easy, the Chromium market is brutal, more for an indie browser like Vivaldi. Releasing it’s full code will be, not only the end of Vivaldi, but also the end of other Chromiums. No for nothing, Vivaldi, despite an marginal market share (~2%) is mencioned on level eye with the US global players because it’s features which nobody else has, the only even used as automotive browser in a lot of EU car brands, not even archived by Google.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Propietary because part of it’s unique UI which can’t be used legally by Chrome or EDGE, but by the user to mod it, not OpenSource but source public available. For feature rich Gecko browsers it is way easier to be OpenSource, because there isn’t any big (US) corporations which use these browsers, also for simple Chromium forks whithout much features which are interesting for GOOGLE or M$. I understand that opt in to dirct match, partner ads and search engine are preferable, but at least it’s way more ethical to create incomming for the Vivaldi infrastructure (Mastodon, usermail, userblog, sync server, etc…) than logging and selling user data.

https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser

We all

Very needed, thanks 🏆

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