Hello all! I’ve been making the switch from American to European tech, and was wondering your thoughts on Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine.

Vivaldi is based on Chromium and iirc not fully open source, but is still suggested in European tech spaces, and has a pretty good privacy policy.

Qwant is not open source, though claims to not to sell personal data or store searches.

What are your thoughts and perhaps suggestions for alternatives?

  • 64bithero@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Browser I’ve been using Librewolf for over a year.

    Helium also looks promising for a browser but it’s Chromium based and I’m not a fan of Chromium.

    For search I’ve been using StartPage. I don’t believe they are open source but Quant I believe like GoDuckGo are using Bing and I think Bing is absolute trash.

    If you don’t mind paying there is Kagi but personally I don’t think the search results have been better than GDG.