I love Vivaldi, which is like a spiritual improvement on Opera. I switched a few years back, and once you get used to the UI and the key shortcuts it's just such a breeze using the internet. Magnificently customizable, very nice little extras. ALAS! Because Vivaldi is based on Opera which is based on Chromium and Google came out and started blocking or restricting addons (the implementation of Manifest v3 blocks a lot of API block requests that ad blockers rely on), I went back to Firefox. Because fuck that.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

There is a good chance that this guy is a bit counter-cultural and does not want to use the obvious version of anything.

Look at the Windows mail client he tried to go with.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser "for gamers", whatever that means.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

they still sponsors lots of youtubers and marketing now is on tab grouping (available on most browsers), theming (which is weaker than vivaldi, and maybe zen too) and ai (all browsers can open a web chat app). but they market to people who are using edge or chrome by default, and to them, it looks fancy.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Gamers are easy to market to.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i enjoy being spyed on by china. and before the whataboutisim, i dont mind that the US or Canada spies on me.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like when they watch.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

ohhh my ;)

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also be spied on by me if you'd like to.

Just send your search queries to me.

For extra espionage, I'll even make sure to use non-privacy respecting search engines (like Google, Yandex, Baidu) and AI for your queries.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds good.