Vivaldi, with which you can sync with it’s desktop version. Inbuild ad/trackerblocker (editable) in both.

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

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.