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Vivaldi Web browser nearly native for Mobian - biketool - 05-05-2025
I have been using Libretranslate for a while as a webapp on my Pinephone Pro running Mobian Trixie, the free service seems to have been discontinued but I need translation as an everyday driver phone tool.
I found Vivaldi browser has an allegedly privacy oriented translation service included as a tool in the browser so I went to the website to see if it was compatible with the PP. https://vivaldi.com/download/
The answer is yes they have an arm and arm64 version (deb and rpm) available for DL(mobian take the arm64 deb) which installs and runs on the PP, the UI is a bit smashed but everything has worked for me so far, as long as you are OK with using rotation a bit.
Is it really so private? IDK there is this reddit discussion thread https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/browsers/comments/swgi5s/how_is_vivaldis_privacy_and_security/
I have only done a small bit of testing the translation tool and tweaking of settings. This Chromium based browser company is based in Europe, is supposedly a pro privacy employee owned company which only keeps back the add-on components from being all FOSS, built in translation, ad-blocker, other interesting vivaldi social media and messaging attempts, browser sync; it seems to work for the most part so you can also test out Vivaldi if you like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)
FYI I went through and quickly disabled the main google attached search and call-home settings that I am familiar with, there may be more, but you can set dudkduckgo as a search engine and I think the ublock origin can be side loaded as well as the unofficial non-google chrome webstore app.
RE: Vivaldi Web browser nearly native for Mobian - anonymous - 05-05-2025
Reminder: Vivaldi is proprietary.
RE: Vivaldi Web browser nearly native for Mobian - Kevin Kofler - 05-05-2025
If you are going to use a proprietary translation service, you might as well just use Google Translate as a web app.
There is a free and apparently unrestricted instance of LibreTranslate running at https://translate.adminforge.de/.