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

Meanwhile Spain

https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/04/spain-and-5-latin-american-countries-reject-us-attack-on-venezuela-in-joint-communique

Sadly it’s the exception in the “EU”

We all

Very needed, thanks 🏆

“I’m the designer of the 2 pixel close button aside of the download link in Mobile ads”

Agree, eg. Apertus (FOSS) is a great choice, but even some indie ones are pretty private, eg.Andisearch. AI can be great to improve our research, work and creativity, but it’s bad if we use it to substitute our research, work and creativity. But yes, avoiding the AIs from big (US) corporations, which use it to spy and log user data.

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Only for the own use, but not to share or publishing it without permissions. That it is done is clear, but always with te risk of legal consequences if the author is pissed of because it as shown in the past several times with high fines. Copyright content isn’t and never was for the free use.

No, you can’t edit and share copyright content without the risk of legal consequences. This is exactly the problem in X denounced by artists and photographers, who see how the AI uses their works without permission. Also for the normal user it isn’t nice when he found his Photo used by an AI meme creator. Even Google must blur the faces in it’s Strret View for legal reasons, the right of the own image. You can use legally only images which are free to use (CC and similar) or with permissions of the author, because of this there are webs with such content, like Pixabay, Freeimage and similar.

In one image

Capitalism is the heir of feudalism and always the prelude to fascism, a system of control and oppression, never a political system. Billionairs and politicians need to be controlled, not the other way arround.

These are the biggest in the world, the newest versionis Bagger 293, 96 m high and 225 m long, 14.500 tons, but now after almost 30 years need some little fixes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv-7nLV-YUM

Short answer, no. There isn’t any FOSS image search with own index or at least only use the images from certain webs, like Pinterest, Pixabay and similar, there are only valid extensions which are FOSS using the index from Google, Bing, Yandex and others, like eg. the one I use https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image (Extension from Germany)

It depends if the VPN skip it or not, but a VPN can enter in conflict if your connection goes already over an proxy, which is probably the case in Startpage. There are are several proxy extensions in the stores, eg. CyberGhost, and VPNLY, if you activate both, they’ll give an error.

Yes and no, what ocurred is that Startpage in default privacy mode, us an own proxy, which may enter in conflict with an VPN. You can’t use an VPN or Proxy over another one. Startpage, even now owned by System one, remains pretty private.

For what we see nowadays in TV, I often thought to substitute it with a Fishtank, smarter content, HD 3D, true color and no spyware

Well, as said before, with the use I give to the TV, it’s anyway irrelevant for me. Logging the news or an ocassional docu in the public TV? Which ads will they show in channels which don`t have?

Any TV nowadays is a smart TV, dumb TV are not longer exist since several years, but I don’t think that the TV can connect to the Neighbours WiFi (so smart to crack the passcode, normally long as my arm, my router even with an inbuild Firewall, well…), and even if it is the case, they log the activity of the neighbours WiFi, not mine. There isn’t any network activity in my TV, apart watching 99% Public TV which don’t have ads in most EU countries (because of this, movies in EU public TV are country restricted, I can watch these only in the PC, visiting their homepage using an Proxy with an server of the corresponding country).