Vivaldi on Android Automotive is the first browser available on Google Play

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15 points·thunderbong··4 comments

I'm a little sad I basically have no choice with some of these cars that come foisted with Android Automotive. I don't want to have to worry about my Google account being suspended and suddenly be locked out of half my infotainment nor do I want to have to create a scratch account just for a car.

Honestly though, that's going to be the safest way to use the car. Make a new account, and use only 3rd party services because you don't want your real google account being linked to the car account.

It's a little crazy having an account with so little protection against Google's automated account systems tied to an $80,000 vehicle, as far as I'm concerned the less exposure to anything that could get your account flagged with no recourse the better.

Who knows if you're going to wake up one day and find out that your car lost access to navigation or something because some dickwads on the internet thought it would be funny to mass report your YouTube comments.

Never heard of the Vivaldi browser until I needed a browser that focused the address bar on a new tab in Samsung DeX. They are apparently on the ball when it comes to Android.

Sadly (due to them being a chromium-based browser), they are ahead and more performant of nearly everyone else in the mobile space. If they enabled the ability to use extensions, such as Kiwi (another chromium mobile browser), or Firefox, they would certainly be king.

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