"Vivaldi is closed source, therefore it's harder for users to investigate", which is clearly an inaccurate statement.
Why is it an inaccurate statement?
What user are you thinking of?
You really felt misled that it was harder to inspect? What makes you think I have the expertise to inspect this? I'm not even a user and I wouldn't know where to start to find the ad blocker within that tarball. Would you?
In any case, I clarified why it was harder to inspect - to me it felt obvious that being closed source made it harder to investigate. The fact that it is also shared source really has no bearing to the general observation, especially since we're talking about a 2GB tarball where I don't even know where to start. And I'm a pretty technical person.
How would a user easily investigate this vs. an open source browser?
It is, it is just source available. Still closed source.
I don't feel like talking to posts proxied from reddit.
Given that Eich was the leader of Mozilla for a short while but he found it hard to stay kinda makes me think Mozilla's leaders are currently better (or at least more acceptable). Can you point to leadership at Mozilla as "bad"?
Not trying to be obtuse here, but why are you pruning your history in the first place? Is someone auditing your browsing history? I'm personally not interested in removing my browser history for the most part - and certainly not frequently enough to notice this limitation.
Why not just open private browsing windows if you don't want your browser remembering those pages? Are you deciding afterwards that you want to forget those pages?
I don't think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.
That's not true - are you using always private mode?
It basically wasn't. The original developer allowed a fork on platforms they weren't interested in, drama ensued and eventually, the Apple thing happened anyway.
uBlock became uBlock Origin once the "origin"al developer took over the project again.
Untrue. Safari never had the real version of uBlock Origin (it was always a port) and it lost many features when Apple moved to a new extensions framework (much like Google). See more: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
I'm asking you what the misinformation is. Is this harder to investigate because the software is closed source? In my mind undoubtedly yes. I know it was harder for ME to investigate because it wasn't open source - no open issue trackers, SCM repository, whatever.
So please tell me why what I said was misinformation - I'm really curious.
Probably simpler to just "Forget" the site from the site's context menu in the history sidebar.