Comment on Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register

• Corgana@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, chromium based means adblockers cannot work as effectively.

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  • azdalen@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I found a Vivaldi blog post on this topic from 2022: vivaldi.com/…/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-block…

      Will the Vivaldi Ad Blocker be affected by the Manifest V3 changes?

      I made some architectural choices early on that I believe should keep it functional, regardless of the Manifest V3 changes. Of course, there is always a possibility that the underlying Chromium architecture will change now or in the future, forcing us to do some extra work to keep this working. ​> Hopefully, a more in-depth description of the architecture and some of the facts surrounding the Manifest V3 changes should help to show why I believe that our implementation is safe for the time being.

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• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a popular phrase “you can’t polish a turd”. The meaning in this case being that if you put a nice UI on chromium it’s still chromium.

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  • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am familiar with the phrase. And I was correct assuming you were referring to chromium as the culprit.

    In case anyone didn’t know, you actually can polish a turd.

    youtu.be/yiJ9fy1qSFI

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not going to watch a video about polishing a turd but I assume the turd remains a turd.

      You’ll not I didn’t actually make the claim that its not possible.

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