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

[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.

[abosio@fosstodon.org]

@jon I’m loving Vivaldi as a recent convert but the last piece of my workflow puzzle is stack syncing between mobile and desktop.

[controlfreak@todon.eu]

@lexinova oof on the hateful cdn, plus as others have noted, their additions to chromium are closed...

[amitie@m.cmx.im]

@jon This is my main browser now and I'm in China.

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@jon I have been trying it and like it but am still trying to figure out how the starting menus system works

[dextivestudios@mastodon.art]

@jon No AI is based.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jon Vivaldi is my daily drive. You share my values about what the internet should be. And you give Vivaldi users a place on the Fediverse. Most of all, it's a great browser. Thanks for what you do.

[gekitsu@toot.cat]

@seanpm2001 @jon jup, my feelings as well. by all accounts, the people making vivaldi seem to be pretty good sorts.

but chromium considered malware.