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Jon S. von Tetzchner

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users.

We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few around Europe and a couple in the US.

Our servers are based in Iceland.

If you want to get away from Big Tech, maybe give us a try? If you are already using Vivaldi, maybe introduce your friends?

Have a nice day!

https://vivaldi.com

#Vivaldi #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #AI #Europa #Technology #EU #UK #Germany #France #Poland #Denmark #Norway #Iceland #Greenland

Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

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@jon Brilliant browser - keep up the good work!

Phosporos44 🇪🇺

@jon great! I work in one of the few european certification authority: actalis 😊
Obsiously i use Vivaldi in all my devices 💪

Xeronarth Jan 15

@jon Definitely have! While I use Waterfox as my day-to-day choice mainly due to familiarity with Gecko, Vivaldi's been my immediate backup and as I get more and more comfortable with it, it might end up being the new main. I've been loving the features you guys offer.

Less worried about the old MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin as I once was as I'll just simply not use a site or service if the built in blocker, with some extra filters, can't do the job.

Ketakater Jan 15

@jon the built-in ad-blocker is great. Works even on youtube video ads

@Ketakater @jon do you have to do anything special to enable this? I went back to Opera for YouTube because it shows zero ads with ublock origin.

Ketakater Jan 15

@mwt @jon No, works out of the box. I haven't seen ads on youtube in years (except for those tiles that they make look like video previews, but the videoes that interrupt normal playback where you have to click to skip are completely eradicated with vivaldi)

@Ketakater @jon it isn't like that on my version. :| Maybe the MacOS version is different?

Ketakater Jan 15

@mwt @jon don't know. I'm using it on my Windows machine and on android

ZenHeathen 🇨🇦Jan 15

@jon Make a choice not to email a new downloader every single day. I hadn't even had time to try the browser yet, but you deluged me, so I declared it spam, and uninstalled the program.

Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺Jan 15

@jon Excellent browser 👍🏻 I use it on mobile and desktop, works great

Amir Khan Jan 15

@jon my default mobile browser 👍🏾

John Burns Jan 15

@jon 👍

🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️Jan 15

@jon I had high hopes and did try your product but discovered it was too closely integrated with Google.

Aula Pública Jan 15

@jon I love Vivaldi. I met it due to it is installed in the computers of my school (I am a teacher in middle and high school) Wonderful.

Buca Chow Chow Jan 15

@jon I enjoy both the browser and the composer.

@bucachowchow me too.

@jon i know you've adblocker. But do you have compartimentalization between sites? PS: I tend to unblock ads using ABP's privacy respecting ad sites list.

Leon Rodgers Jan 15

@jon I love how Vivalidi is the only mainstream browser that allows you to have the URL field in the tab bar natively.

Belinda scott Jan 15

@jon how good is it ?

mirabilos Jan 16

@jon I’d rather not, given you censor and throw out people who question the genocide in Palestina.

seanpm2001 🇺🇦️🇬🇱Jan 16

@jon Vivaldi is still a problem. Your browser is not only closed source software, but it is based on Chromium, meaning you are just another Google browser, like Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc. I am unhappy with Firefox at the moment, but I will keep using it, as I refuse to support Google.

@seanpm2001 My sentiments exactly.

@seanpm2001 @jon jup, my feelings as well. by all accounts, the people making vivaldi seem to be pretty good sorts.

but chromium considered malware.

TheZorse Jan 16

It looked promising when I checked it out, but I'd humbly recommend that either the Google checkboxes be unchecked by default, or the user is shown a message during setup pointing them out.

Hana Aianhanma Jan 16

@jon In the words of my mother: vivaldi is too messy out of the box.

That, together with the pain one has to go through if one wants to remove all the "big tech" style ads and disable the associated trickery, makes it really hard to recommend.

Anthony Bosio Jan 16

@jon I’m loving Vivaldi as a recent convert but the last piece of my workflow puzzle is stack syncing between mobile and desktop. 🙏

blobcatgrimacing

@jon This is my main browser now and I'm in China.

Echo Dextive Jan 16

@jon No AI is based.

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Jan 16

Is it easy to migrate from Firefox and keep saved bookmarks and login passwords ?

Evan Prodromou Jan 16

@jon Vivaldi is my daily drive. You share my values about what the internet should be. And you give Vivaldi users a place on the Fediverse. Most of all, it's a great browser. Thanks for what you do.

Linh Pham Jan 16

@jon While I prefer to use Firefox as my primary browser (partly at a way to show that non-Chromium browsers are still important), but Vivaldi is my go-to Chromium-based browser.

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Jan 16

@jon @zazzoo 🙏thank you.

Olivia Grace 🌸Jan 16

@jon I've just downloaded, I don't demand much from my browser bar no-AI and good ad blocking. Good so far

Sander de Regt Jan 16

@jon I really like Vivaldi, especially the sessions functionality.
There's only one issue: after the first start up of the day, every subsequent time I start Vivaldi it takes something like 30 seconds before I can use it. It becomes totally unresponsive during that time. I've been in contact with support, but so far there has not been a solution. Which is a shame because apart from that it runs great. This is on Windows btw.

@jon @inthehands This browser is very nice, but I would love for it to do one thing, be a bit more privet. Would be super cool if you would scramble the fingerprint on it, to provide another layer of security, without the need for plugins.

eLearningTechie Jan 16

@seven_708 @jon Yes please - that would make your good browser a great browser!

@seven_708 @jon @inthehands that's my wish since years. And I adressed this again & again to Vivaldi. But - nothing happend. Frustration!!!! 😠

@jon Last time I tried Vivaldi, I recall facing some #accessibility issues. Have you chosen to prioritize that aspect of user requested improvement, or should I look elsewhere? :)

swggrkllr3rd Jan 16

@jon What about a european OS ??

Sjoerd Aalbers 🇪🇺🇾🇪🇺🇦Jan 16

@jon I am using Vivaldi both on my laptop as well on my smartphone. Fantastic browser! Keep up the good work 👏🏻

Angelina Jan 16

@jon Does this browser play the Vivaldi Spring during loading times ? 🤔

Androcat Jan 16

@jon One thing I keep hearing is that there might be some vulnerability involved in using a Chromium base.

Do you have plans for breaking out of that, if threats materialize?

@jon Isn't vivaldi chromium based?

Fazal Majid Jan 16

@jon Iceland is a wonderful country with forward-looking legislation, but as a sparsely populated country like Greenland, it is vulnerable to invasion and occupation by bigger powers as occurred during WW2.

Do you have any contingency plans if Mad King Trump decides he'd like to add Iceland as a bauble to his empire?

Smiling Heretic Jan 16

@jon @peterbrown Have you quit adding a link to Amazon built in? If so, I'll try it again. If not, get lost!

danilasch Jan 17

@jon In fact, I really want to see a built-in translation feature for YouTube and PeerTube videos in the future.

Alex Semёnov Jan 17

Yep, it was the Yandex.Browser killer-feature, but when almost all websites are blocked, it's almost useless. BTW, there are some extensions for this.

Charles A-M Jan 18

@jon I quite enjoy using Vivaldi on my work computer, helping to stack mu hundreds of tabs into groups on the tab bar (with custom tab names), and select multiple tabs to tile them in the window.

Zillions of settings options, and easily customized keyboard shortcuts.

Oh, and being able to attach/upload a file directly from the downloads panel without having to hunt for it in my file manager? *chef's kiss*

I've reported a couple of bugs and the worst ones were addressed very quickly!

Marcus Anthony Cyganiak Jan 18

@jon Why doesn’t my Vivaldi web history never sync between Mac computers that use my same Vivaldi sync account? That’s been an ongoing issue for several years, in my experience.

@jon Impressive European browser, but I still prefer Firefox as it is open-source and not reliant on Chromium.