With no expertise on the topic, but having watched a few of his videos, he seems like a trustworthy guy. He often does read through of company policy and terms and service agreements to look at privacy infractions. He also prides himself on no sponsorships.

What is the opinion on Vivaldi here as an alternative? I am using Firefox and Zen currently. But I wouldn’t mind jumping towards a European alternative. I switched to Firefox to support an alternative to chromium based browsers, but I think EU/Nordic angle is more important to me.

Definitely! I’ll look at the upvote counter(stupid me I know) and think to myself ‘oh that’s not much engagement’ and then remind myself that it’s actually real people(most likely) and not just bots.