this week's book is Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
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This is my very first post on lemmy since leaving Reddit a couple of years ago. For the past few days, I've dealing with feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the worlds grief by making a project of unplugging my life and mind from data mining overlords that have offered me convenience and immediacy in exchange for my privacy and mental health. I'm migrating from Gmail to Proton, from Chrome to Vivaldi, and I'm getting my head wrapped around how decentralized/distributed social media platforms work. All of this is meet and right so to do, but if I'm being honest with myself, I'm just soothing myself with something I can feel in some control over. I miss the old internet. Hopefully, in some small sense we can have it back.
Welcome! I suspect you'll find what you're looking for here. This is a great group of Beeple who will challenge you while respecting you.
But why not Firefox or a fork? Vivaldi is Chromium. I use Vivaldi, but only for my less-savoury links.
There are definitely upsides to using Firefox. I do find that the currently available ad-blocking extensions work better on a certain popular video hosting site. I still use Firefox so I can listen to use that site to listen to music without a 17 minute infomercial playing in the middle of every song. But I don't think its fair to say that Vivaldi is Chromium. Vivaldi uses a fork of Chromium's Blink rendering engine. I'm not really super worried about that aspect of a browser. Every browser is built on one of like three engines and they're all decades old. Mozilla was developing Servo as a next gen but it was written in Rust, so it died when Rust got axed. I'm more concerned with data transfer security, telemetry and UI. Vivaldi wins in all those categories IMO.