Jon S. von Tetzchner6d ago

My first company, Opera, was built on word of mouth. The same applies to my 2nd company, @Vivaldi. We have never had the means that Big Tech has. In the case of Vivaldi, we have even avoided investors, to not end up like Opera.

We have also made it harder for our selves. We likely could have generated more funds through adding stuff like Crypto, AI or just plain old data collection in the browser, but we choose not to. We are also not an Ad company like most of our larger competitors. Instead we have added a wealth of features and customization.

Now people are starting to understand that just going with Big Tech may be easy to start with, but ends up not being worth it. In fact we now have governments and companies thinking that they need to move away from Big Tech and quickly.

We welcome you all.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #Apple #Google #Microsoft

https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-can-a-dugnad-save-the-web/

How can a dugnad help save the web? | Vivaldi Browser

At Vivaldi we believe that the web is one of humanity’s greatest inventions: open to everyone, built for exploration and expression. But the feeling you get being online these days doesn’t necessarily…

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Show threadBoosh226d ago
@jon @Vivaldi have been using the browser and like it. Still worried about it being based on chromium due to Googles latest position. Would be nice if it was its own web browser, to offer a real alternative (as i belive Firefox is). Still, nice browser and nice features. Thank you for creating it.
Show threadJon S. von Tetzchner

@Boosh22 @Vivaldi

Here is the thing. Chromium is also based on another browser core in Webkit and Webkit in turn was based on khtml. That is how open source works at times.

I have built a browser from scratch. I did that at Opera. There is a reason why nobody has done that for more than 25 years. It is just not trivial to do. If it was, Apple, Google and Microsoft would have made a browser from scratch instead of building on code made by others.

A strong Vivaldi can influence what Chromium becomes. If you support us, we will do our best to influence the Web to become better, like we have always done.

Jun 24 at 3:14amWeb
Show threadPPN6d ago
@Vivaldi @Boosh22 @jon you will never be strong enough to have a say in whatever shady business Google tries to pull off. Mozilla surviving on the whims of Google is bad enough, relying on a project directly maintained by them is even worse. We have seen the fiasco of manifest v3 play out.
Show threadDavi Ottenheimer5d ago

@jon @Boosh22 @Vivaldi I am trying to put browser engines in front of the EU as a matter of national security. maybe @aristot73 can help here

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/papers-please-who-does-your-browser-engine-actually-belong-to/

Papers, Please: Who Does Your Browser Engine Actually Belong To? | flyingpenguin

Show threadSamir5d ago

@jon @Boosh22 @Vivaldi > There is a reason why nobody has done that for more than 25 years.

From what I've heard Igalia is making good progress with Servo. Would love to see a collab there.