At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors.

[curiousmagpie@beige.party]

@jon I had high hopes and did try your product but discovered it was too closely integrated with Google.

[aulapublica@mastodon.social]

@jon I love Vivaldi. I met it due to it is installed in the computers of my school (I am a teacher in middle and high school) Wonderful.

[bucachowchow@mstdn.party]

@jon I enjoy both the browser and the composer.

[ditsch42@troet.cafe]

@elduvelle @jon @zotero Oh!! Great, I didn't think of that :D I'll try it tomorrow!

[mwt@mastodon.nz]

@Ketakater @jon do you have to do anything special to enable this? I went back to Opera for YouTube because it shows zero ads with ublock origin.

[ketakater@social.vivaldi.net]

@mwt @jon No, works out of the box. I haven't seen ads on youtube in years (except for those tiles that they make look like video previews, but the videoes that interrupt normal playback where you have to click to skip are completely eradicated with vivaldi)

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@jon LIE your server are proxied to Cloudflare, so you are NOT independent from US

You also have no Fdroid repository

And you still Use Github SLOP generator from US MicroSlop

Funny an AI "free" browser allowing AI in it's workflow via MicroSLOP Github

[onirakkiss@ioc.exchange]

@jon
How do you pay your rent? Where is Vivaldi generating money?

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@CuriousMagpie @jon and you don't have seen they use Cloudflare as middleman, AND still use Github with it's AI from MicroSLOP

So much for an AI free browser, border false claim i want to say.

[user46@masto.pt]

@jon i know you've adblocker. But do you have compartimentalization between sites? PS: I tend to unblock ads using ABP's privacy respecting ad sites list.

[imleon@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon I love how Vivalidi is the only mainstream browser that allows you to have the URL field in the tab bar natively.

[africanbeauty@mastodon.social]

@jon how good is it ?

[mwt@mastodon.nz]

@Ketakater @jon it isn't like that on my version. :| Maybe the MacOS version is different?

[ketakater@social.vivaldi.net]

@mwt @jon don't know. I'm using it on my Windows machine and on android

[dougiec3@libretooth.gr]

@jon
Love Vivaldi. I heard about it here, on Mastodon, tried it and have been with it ever since. No bugs! Ah...

[seanpm2001@techhub.social]

@jon Vivaldi is still a problem. Your browser is not only closed source software, but it is based on Chromium, meaning you are just another Google browser, like Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc. I am unhappy with Firefox at the moment, but I will keep using it, as I refuse to support Google.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@seanpm2001 My sentiments exactly.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@bucachowchow me too.

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@jon

It looked promising when I checked it out, but I'd humbly recommend that either the Google checkboxes be unchecked by default, or the user is shown a message during setup pointing them out.

[aianhanma@toot.community]

@jon In the words of my mother: vivaldi is too messy out of the box.

That, together with the pain one has to go through if one wants to remove all the "big tech" style ads and disable the associated trickery, makes it really hard to recommend.