Jon S. von TetzchnerHave you tried the @Vivaldi?
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jakub 
FlorianTischner@FlorianTischner @jakub @Vivaldi, interesting.
Maybe you should give us a try. You just might be positively surprised. 😀
@jon @jakub @Vivaldi I really don't want to be read as confrontational or dismissive of your work, but there's little there to entice me to switch from Firefox with an ad-blocking add-on.
You're distributing it as closed source software and are a commercial enterprise. It's unclear to me how you make money from me installing it (and you have to make money from me installing it in a capitalist society). This unclear business-model is enough to turn me away.
@jon @jakub @Vivaldi The web taught me that if I'm not paying for the product I /am/ the product.
Again, this is not meant to be a dig at you or your product. For all I know the browser is great and from the work you've been doing in the public during the last decades you're a trustworthy guy. But the presentation leaves open questions for a security-minded/paranoid reader.
@FlorianTischner @jakub @Vivaldi
I get you. I am very angry about surveillance economy and we have been very clear about that at Vivaldi as well. Feel free to read about it here:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/its-time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/
I understand why you are skeptical, but you may be backing the wrong horse. We have a long history here, both at Opera and now Vivaldi. We have been true to our word. In fact the reason for Vivaldi existing is to be true to our users. Those we had at Opera.
