Alex RussellConvinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and revealed "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.
nikolasdi@slightlyoff #vivaldi has this
nickchomey@nikolasdi I just checked out Vivaldi for the first time based on this comment. It looks *fantastic*...
I'm going to give it a test-drive and probably end up switching over from Edge
PointlessOne 
@nickchomey @nikolasdi shame it’s another chrome.
@pointlessone @nickchomey I agree. I left Firefox after the recent privacy policy incident.
In what way is it a shame? As far as I can tell, chromium is the most full-featured, test-passing browser of the 3
@nickchomey It is, but if we're not careful it can become the only. Don’t we have enough examples of “why monopoly is bad” yet?
What do you propose as a solution? Safari (execs) are anti-web, Firefox's management is in absolute shambles...
@nickchomey I personally am sticking with Firefox. The tech is solid. Firefox is adding vertical tabs and tab groups, keeps v2 manifest for better ad-blockers, all welcome features. All the side projects of the corpo have no bearing on me. If I’m a small blip on their usage stats and blips on analytics all over the place I’m content. This is my tiny contribution to keeping web diverse and it takes no effort on my part.
Fair enough. I'm more concerned about them removing their clause about never selling your data... Edge was surely already more invasive, but at least they didn't do thr equivalent Of removing Don't be Evil.
Vivaldi seems to be a nice balance of privacy, features etc. Looking forward to exploring it more. A bonus is that it imported all my edge tabs, history etc in like 2 seconds, and should support all the same extensions (some of which I might not need now)
@nickchomey In my mind it’s a theoretical threat. They don’t have much of my data right now to sell. But even if they had it wouldn’t be much different than is already sold by others. I’m being tracked around the web regardless which browser I use and there’s little I can do to remedy that. Vivaldi (and everyone else) probably collect some amount of telemetry, too. Do they sell it? Do they promise to never share it with hundreds of valued partners?
Mozilla explained that their wording was to comply with some weird local law in their justification. I don’t think it was more nefarious than that. This is not a legal advice, just how I see it. You can find all sorts of evil sounding stuff in EULAs and TOS of other stuff you use. You still use it.
@nickchomey @pointlessone Because I would like some comercial alternatives based on Firefox. Monopoly is not good in the long run.
@nickchomey I heard Edge is good too. I switched to Vivaldi from Zen a few months ago. It gets better over time, as I find out more and more what it can do.
@nikolasdi I've been a very happy user of edge since basically the day it became chromium. The main reason, though, was really just vertical tabs and sync with android. I like the tracker blocker etc too.
I see Vivaldi has those and much more - rss reader, native adblock, surely vastly less telemetry/user profiling, and not pushing copilot down your throat every chance they get.