I'm sorry to break it to you, but Vivaldi is built on the Chromium engine, which is the same engine used by Google Chrome. As a project it depends on Google which is not an EU company.

If you have to chose a fork from either Google or Mozilla, I'd say Mozilla is the least evil. I would suggest Mullvad browser as a better EU substitute. With either librewolf or Icecat as runners up (although not sure if EU based)

There is also ladybird which is a entirely new engine and not based on either Google or Mozilla's work. It is open source and non profit but I'm not sure if they are based in the EU.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Enjoy Mastodon!

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

As others have said, Vivaldi is based on chromium and bibs you to google. That can’t be better than Firefox.

[–] glazing@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, its nice, if you want to stay on firefox-based browser, you could try Floorp, but it is japanes, not EU