But their Google music fail, their rising phone prices, their bait and switch photo storage, and low quality search results have caused me to change.
Any alternatives to Chrome, Firefox on both Android and Desktop are buggy, I want a different company?
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/iq33nv/brave...
When it was launched a year or two ago, Brave didn't integrate with the Chrome extension web store, but now it does (just like Vivaldi). Of course, also like Vivaldi, you may not need another adblocker since Brave has "shields" which are very easy to enable/disable (but it works fine if you install ublock origin, privacy badger, quick JS switcher, etc.)
Opera was sold to Chinese investment fund, they are scamming short term loans in Africa now.
Vivaldi was created by old Opera exec with same goals as old Opera. Their problem is not being scammy, neither is privacy. Their biggest problems are code quality - UI in javascript is sloow, closing tabs or fullscreening youtube video takes one full second. Then there is culture of secrecy - pretending open source by dumping uncompilable tar.bz2 code shreds from time to time and keeping bug tracker behind closed doors in order to not show how (not) many people work on it and what bugs they ignore for years.
There's also this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/