• TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    9 minutes

    This is great, but my immediate concern is what’s going to happen to ad blocking.

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 hours

    It’s really funny that the bold stance in tech now is essentially, “hey, we won’t fuck with our product.”

    Vivaldi putting up a W by pledging to simply not do anything. It’s that easy.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29 minutes

      I too pledge not to put AI in your life!

      I mean, I’m not a programmer, and I have no products, but…I needed a win in my life, and if I get a W by pledging not to do things I wasn’t going to do anyways? I’ll take it!

      I also pledge not to eat unhealthy today.

      …I might break that one actually. We’ll see.

    • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 hours

      In a lot of cases I find that the more recent tech comes out, the more I don’t want it. It’s kinda nice when something that works, just keeps working and isn’t trying to integrate everything new for no reason.

      • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.worldEnglish
        1 hour

        I’ve been struggling with this shift too. Tech used to game changing ideas for people, now it’s sole purpose is a vehicle for corporate profits. Tech used to be an exciting Wild West of crazy new ideas and new ways to be creative or play or communicate and share with friends or do less work. Now consumer focused tech is just minor evolutions of current tech launched with billion dollar marketing campaigns, corporate traps to lock you into app addictions or various subscriptions to see stock price increase 0.1%. And I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    54 minutes

    Hmm. I might be interested in switching to Vivaldi.

  • ジン@quokk.auEnglish
    1 hour

    I’m so gonna try vivaldi when I finally have some issue with librewolf or if

  • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    I might give them the benefit of the doubt and try them again ('t has been years since)

    • Reisen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 hours

      while i don’t use them as my main browser it feels vivaldi is one of the few ones who at least tries something new. who isn’t just trying to emulate chrome with a few quality of life ones. i remember them introducing tiled tabs, stacked tabs, the tab bar on the sides or the bottom, way before i’ve seen any other browser do that? might not have been the first with all of those but at least firefox, chrome and edge didn’t have that as an option back then

      • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Tab management on Vivaldi is second to none. I pray every day that they swap to a Firefox backend one day, would be the best browser by a mile

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
          57 minutes

          What makes firefox’s backend better? I’ve been considering switching from it lately.

            • Jean-luc Peak-hard@piefed.socialEnglish
              8 minutes

              Basically this.

              Any browser that leverages Google’s Chromium project is enabling Google to continue to drive the web. Alternative browsers, first and foremost, must not be built using Chromium.

    • zerofk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 hour

      On PC I’ve used them pretty much since the start and I have very little to complain about.

      On mobile (iOS) I tried a few times but it’s unbearably slow.

      • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
        15 minutes

        I’ve also been on Vivaldi since right around the start. I’d just wish they would fix their address bar suggestions to actually work. It isn’t great to start, and then decides to completely break every few months and do stuff like when I type “you” to go to youtube it insists on autofilling to a specific video I watched months ago. The only fix I’ve found is to nuke the profile and start over.

        I’ve switched to Zen on my computer a couple months ago exclusively because of that issue.