When I smoked this, I often came up with brilliant ideas to achieve world peace and eradicate hunger in the world. The only problem was that I forgot it 5 minutes later.

There are two Windows services which are big Data hogs, slowing down the system and which you can desactivate, the hibernation service, which create temporary duplicates of every open app in a temporary file, so it open this apps after Reboot, it’s not really needed, you can put apps you use regulary simply in the Start avoiding to fill your PC with tons of temp files. Apart the Index service, which stored any change in the file system, to accelerate the search, but this in a modern PC, more if you use an SSD, don’t make much diifference, but save a lot of RAM and CPU.

For customize the UI and the Start menu, which in Win 11 is by default an absolute crap with an chunky Fisher Price design, where you can’t customize not even the Task Bar, you can use WindHawk (FOSS), it’s something like an userscript manager, which permits to change any aspect of the GUI with an click.

This always happens when those who create laws are senile old men who confuse a remote control with a mobile phone or corrupt politicians, paid by lobbies, instead of experts in the corresponding subject.

If you have to use Windows, there are two mandatory apps with which you can turn Windows in an fast, private and submissive OS without nags and trackings, Hellzerg Optimizer and Portmaster. My tweked W11 use less than 1 GB in RAM and the GUI has nothing to do with the (horrible) original one.

It’s about profiling the user, logging his activities and searches, certainly bring more money than these “rewards”.

Not only Chromiums in this alliance, also Geckos there.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/browser-choice-alliance-launch/

EDGE is an usefull app for downloading an Browser in a new Windows.

https://www.goeuropean.org/, there you can find all kind of stuff. but there is anyway an page with all european alternatives in https://european-alternatives.eu/categories.

No, with this to what you say yes or no, you can set it in the browser instead in this Pop-up. All what you don’t want get blocked. This way you set it one time in your browser for all pages you visit. instead ov everytime in each page. The result is the same, but without annoying consent nags. With the GDPR all pages are forced by law to ask for your consents, before with this pop-up, and now following the consent settings in the browser. This is the only difference, less nags for the user. With the page permission settings and the adblocker, this crap anyway get blocked. So this consent window in any case is useless.

Short answer: Yes

It’s not gutting it, it’s changing the system with same result. Instead of annoying cookie consent pop-ups, a setting in the browser with admissible cookies (same as in the pop-up) this way the unwanted cookies are blocked from the browser itself (apart of those which anyway get blocked by the adblocker and privacy settings). With this there isn’t needed anymore this pop-up. It’s a good idea, I think.

Vivaldi still support Mv2 as long as possible, but anyway Mv2 will die for all browsers sooner or later, like Mv1 in 2013. Mv3 has a different cookie handling with better privacy, but in adblockers is somewhat more limited in blocking filters. For practical purposes the difference is minimal, AdGuard and Adblock Plus are already Mv3, uBO, due to the intern algorrithm isn’t yet compatible with Mv3 and only released an uBO Lite which fullfit Mv3 with the uBO basic functions to block ads and trackers, The inbuild Vivaldi blocker is not affected by the change, it does a perfect work, but is discovered by the anti adblock algorrithm of YT, there the workarround is using the Vivaldi trackingblocker + uBO Lite, which is capable to spoof the adblocker, until the Vivaldi devs solved this issue. Not so easy, because YT change the algorrith pretty often.

Using search engines which don’t include SEO crap, nor logs your activity.

Yes, but Chromium is FLOSS and every company is free to gut the Google sniffings, what Vivaldi is doing, because of this Vivaldi’s Chromium base is always behind the current version from Chrome, except security patches. Mozilla depends way more on Google than Vivaldi. There are no third party investors in Vivaldi which can influence decisions of the cooperative.

Soon there are self flying AI Airplanes

Not the biggest, they can be way bigger, but different as squids, they are not agressive against humans, showing mostly reactions of curiosity, humans are not part of their prey.

The Vaticane don’t fullfit the conditions to be an EU member, they have not signed the Declaration of Human Rights, nor have they officially condemned torture and the death penalty.

Tuta

Murena Workspace

A browser is only a secudary problem in privacy, if you use another than Chrome or Edge, it’s mainly the search engine you use the problem, the sites you visit, the mail you use, the data you publish, your common sense online, there are the main privacy holes.