#Vivaldi browser

[autolenaphilia]

Fuck Chromium (and that includes Brave and Vivialdi)

I have made multiple posts about why you should use Firefox, and of course I get the reply "not all chromium browsers are bad, they are not all as evil as Chrome." And sure, browsers who use the chromium code are not required to do all the shady things that Google does with it.

Still, I think it's bad that chromium-based browsers are getting close to total market dominance. By this point it has made Google's competitors like Microsoft and Opera drop their own unique proprietary browser engines for chromium. Browsers are becoming a fucking monoculture at this point. And Chromium becoming the browser code base of choice empowers Google, since they are the ones who mainly develop, maintain and fund its code. It means supporting them in their quest to become an internet monopoly that can do things like drm the web itself.

So let me be clear: you are still supporting google by using chromium-based browsers. By helping out in making chromium the de facto standard for browsers, you are giving google power. They are the ones driving chromium development, they will set the standards. And those standards will be in Google's favor. They are an ad company, their goal is to kill off adblockers by making them impossible to use, first with manifest v3 for extensions and now WEI, their web drm.

Brave is a joke.

The supposed "good guy" chromium browsers people recommend are actually shady as shit.

The one i see recommended the most is Brave, and it's fucking terrible. For one thing, it is funded by right-wing techbro Brendan Eich. He was Mozilla CEO for some time, but then people found he was a massive homophobe who funded campaigns against marriage equality, and Mozilla forced him to resign. And that's why he created Brave. That's who you are supporting by using Brave.

It runs off chromium because that's the easy and lazy choice for a browser. And it's literally funded through cryptocurrency, probably the negative environmental impact is a plus in Eich's book. And its adblocker runs off the same dishonest business model as adblock plus does, it will not block ads if advertisers pay them for the privilege. This betrayal of the users is opt-in at least, and you get paid for watching ads, but it's in the aforementioned worthless crypto beans. Brave is a joke.

Vivaldi and the importance of open-source

And then there's Vivaldi, it's a freeware proprietary browser run by a for-profit company, which alone should scare you off it.

"If you aren't paying for it, you are not the customer, you are the product" is a phrase that sometimes unfairly gets applied to open source projects to dismiss them. If it's open source and either community-run or run by a non-profit foundation like the Open document foundation for Libreoffice and or the Mozilla foundation for Firefox/Thunderbird, you are safe even if it's free.

But that phrase 100% applies to free products from for-profit corporations. These companies need to make profits at some point for for their shareholders, and if it is not from selling goods or services, it comes from things like selling your user's data or "attention".

That applies to Vivaldi, who makes big promises about how they will respect their users privacy and never sell their data. But promises mean nothing, Google also says they respect your privacy. And the thing is, Vivaldi is closed source. Not entirely, ironically the bits they got from Google's chromium are open source, but other parts of their code is closed-source. And what that means is, they can make any and all promises about what their browser's code does and there is nobody except Vivaldi that can check if their code actually fulfils those promises. Only Vivaldi has access to that code.

I'm no open-source fanatic, like I don't care if some random game i install and play is closed-source, as long as it is from a credible developer. But open-source is important for security and privacy, because that means someone else other than the company who develops the program can vet it's code for vulnerabilities and privacy violations. Your browser and e-mail client (vivaldi has an e-mail client too) should be open-source for your own safety, because those programs handle sensitive data like your passwords or your e-mails. Closed-source is not more secure, since Kerckhoff's principle applies to digital security and privacy.

And Vivaldi by being proprietary software fails that test. Their own justification is that being closed-source is "their first line of defense, to prevent other parties from taking the code and building an equivalent browser (essentially a fork) too easily." It's the same hypocritical argument that Red Hat used to justify making their Enterprise Linux distro closed-source. "It's fine if we use chromium's code to build our own browser, and expressly for making an Opera clone (that's the literal point of Vivaldi, that's why the name is a music reference), but if someone does the same with our product, they're evil." It's nauseating and alone justification to distrust Vivaldi as it is crying out to be trusted.

Listen to some Antonio Vivaldi instead, his music slaps. And install Firefox and Thunderbird instead.

[deramin2]

You know what, Vivaldi, I don't think these cached YouTube tab previews are correct.

[snowytasha]

reminder that vivaldi is the only good chromium browser

[honysoytquimalpence]

vivaldi estas bona, cxu ne?

[pacificus-pacificator]

Another Mini-Heatwave Before Summer

As I have downloaded and joined the Vivaldi browser community, I get to publish on a free Wordpress blog.

Vivaldi’s servers are said to be based in Norway and Iceland.

Would I be using much less of Google Blogger? I don’t know. But I do know that Tumblr and Wordpress belong together.

[gemsreallife]

Step 1 of getting away from Google

I had to choose a new browser for my laptop since I plan to do away with Google. I've got my personal google accounts as well as the google suite that we use for the shop. I'm tired of reading about how they keep hiring ex-intelligence from Israel, so I'm going to stop giving them my money and my data.

I went with Vivaldi browser because of their distaste for AI. I'm extremely fed up with every single platform or service I use pushing it on me, so I'm actively walking away from companies who are doing it.

Also, I created my new email account! I wanted to sign into Vivaldi so I could keep track of my bookmarks and things, so I had to make that choice. I selected Fastmail because they offer a minimalist inbox with no ads. It's not free, but I'm willing to pay for the pleasure of not having things sold to me.

Now every day I am logging a few things into the new browser and updating my emails. I'm also weighing whether I can live with a dumb phone when I am not traveling. I'm currently in the process of stripping away apps I don't need from my smartphone.

Now I've got a lot things switched over, and I can use this browser for my work. There will be a long process of taking information out of my old accounts. I'm not expecting it to all be done quickly, there are decades of emails and data in there. But it feels really good to have moved a lot of the essentials!

[atsvensson]

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[dandelionsprout42]

How to fix Vivaldi Widevine "Update error" on Windows 11

This is certainly one of those "Problems that only I have ever run into" moments. Though in this case it's approx. 80 other people who've run into the problem, but none of their fixes worked for me.

So under rather complicated circumstances, and I've already forgot most of them after I got them to work maybe 10min ago. It was something like this:

In "%LocalAppData%\Vivaldi\User Data\WidewineCdm", create a new subfolder with a version number. The folder can be named for instance "4.10.2830.0".

Inside that new subfolder, copy various Winevide-related files from other browsers' Widewine folders (In particular from MS Edge, but plausibly also from Firefox), especially "widevinecdm.dll" and "widevinecdm.dll.sig", possibly also "manifest.json" but I'm unsure if that file is needed or not. Paste those files both in the top of that folder, and in "_platform_specific"→"win_x64", relaunch Vivaldi, and hope for the best.

It sure seems to have worked for me and then some.

[4seohelp]

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[panayator]

Vivaldi is amazing

To whom it may concern, Vivaldi is excellent. Not the composer. I mean I guess he is too but I'm talking about the browser lmao. Much better than Chrome or OperaGX (also they're pretty much spyware).

I wanted to switch from OperaGX after having switched to it from Chrome and I was between Vivaldi and Brave. Don't get me wrong, Brave seems just as great, and might possibly be faster, but I got hooked by everything Vivaldi has to offer in terms of customization and personalization (which is why Vivaldi takes up a pretty good chunk of RAM when you've enabled pretty much everything, like at least 1GB when casually browsing so you're gonna need a beefy pc/laptop)

[learningthroughthegrapevine]

Migaku, Vivaldi and the Agony of Sentence Mining

I've been sentencing mining with quite a bit of difficulty for a few months and I finally figured out what was causing my issues.

Basically the Vivaldi browser has a feature that I loved to use while sentence mining that would eventually break Migaku almost every single time.

This feature is called web panels. I added Papago and Naver Dictionary to it since it incredibly easy to double check the meaning of the words I was mining. I have no experience with programming so I can't explain why this happens exactly, but my current theory is the web panels act like a different tab. Which is fine normally, but if you have recording turned on in Migaku it automatically turns off sometimes when I use the web panels.

When that happens I get a bit frustrated and turn recording back on. However if I use the web panels too much Migaku eventually stops being able to generate Anki cards. Unfortunately I haven't been able to fix the problem besides quitting sentence mining for the rest of the day.

So my advice is this:

Do NOT use web panels in Vivaldi while sentence mining with Migaku. Open your dictionary in a separate tab instead.

Please keep in mind that I use the legacy version of Migaku. (Which the devs have basically abandoned.)

[kenwu0310]

Vivaldi Browser Release 6.5.3206.59 , For Desktop

版本號： 6.5.3206.59 官方下載： https://vivaldi.com/download/ 重點項目(桌面版)： [Chromium] Upgraded to 120.0.6099.278 [Linux][RPM] Handle key import failing during post install (VB-103494) [Linux][RPM] Make the post install less noisy (VB-103495) 詳細訊息可參考官方說明： Minor update (7) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 6.5

[professional-007]

https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100961462-15402312

[buindia]

A customisable and privacy-focused Vivaldi Browser is now available on iOS. Enjoy a seamless, fast, and secure browsing experience.

[brightsuzaku]

I did a switch back to Firefox, but the browser I was switching from is Vivaldi, which is apparently the least shitty Chromium browser. (Which is technically different from Chrome, but I will never consider Chrome for real.)

I will probably use either one as I will to figure out if sticking with a browser switch is worth it, since I really do prefer the QoL improvements Vivaldi has WRT customization, accessibility, and that amazing sidebar.... Also, the shortcuts homepage, lol. It's great.

I used Firefox for years, but wanted to trade out its bloat for Vivaldi sometime in... What, 2017?

We'll see how it goes, because when I made the switch to Vivaldi all that time ago, I adjusted quickly, and found I loved it. Granted, I also loved Firefox back when I switched to it 5 billion years ago away from... What, IE, in like 2008? Having a browser you could customize with themes was mind-blowing.

[dandelionsprout42]

I dropped my trust in Google a couple months ago due to the nightmare that is Manifest V3 that essentially gives Google a veto right on anything that involves adblocker extensions at all.

It was already far too few people before who began writing their own lists for adblocker software (Over an 8-year period I saw fewer than 300 rookies writing publicly accessible lists), and with Manifest V3 the number of newcomers from Q4 2024 onwards will very rapidly drop to 0 (or may already be at 0) unless Firefox makes a big comeback.

So far I've moved to Vivaldi because it's Norwegian-owned and I am from Norway, a country known for being devoid of any other significant global tech projects. But the statements offered by the Vivaldi devs about Vivaldi's plans for the summer of 2025 onwards are meek cowardice Deluxe™©™, so I'm likely on Firefox full-time too by mid-June.

With the rise of Google’s bias cocksucking for certain politicians in their search engine/map systems, I say we bring this diva back