101 to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 hours agoI guess some browsers are "building a better Internet" more than others.imagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1115arrow-down1imageI guess some browsers are "building a better Internet" more than others.101 to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewhyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·13 hours agothe browser itself seems to not be open source
minus-squarestinerman [Ohio]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·12 hours agoYeah I read a blog post about why it isn’t and the answer was pretty bog-standard answers for why anything is closed-source: “if we make these cool customizations open, then anyone could take it and make a competing product.” https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
minus-squareTriflingToad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours ago*says while using open source engine
the browser itself seems to not be open source
Yeah I read a blog post about why it isn’t and the answer was pretty bog-standard answers for why anything is closed-source: “if we make these cool customizations open, then anyone could take it and make a competing product.”
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
*says while using open source engine