@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.

@FlorianTischner @jakub @Vivaldi, now this is interesting.

We are actually very clear on our business model:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

It is similar to the business model of Mozilla, but Mozilla corporation makes a lot more money than we do. More than $400 million.

We are a small company trying to do the right thing. We do not have outside investors. We focus on building great software and we try to do the right thing with regards to our users.

@FlorianTischner I bought a T-shirt last year from them, hoping, it will help reducing their dependency on other sources of income :-) .........

Would buy ten more of them if they would make it open source - or at least continue to stay out of the "selling your users" business.
@jon @jakub @Vivaldi

@cymaphore @FlorianTischner @jakub @Vivaldi

Thank you for that. I think you will find that our business model is very clean. It is described here:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

We are very clear on what we think about the surveillance economy as well:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/its-time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/

Our code is mostly fully open and at least readable. We have considered taking the last couple of steps, but it is a big decision.