@jon free software, pls.

@Vivaldi

@jon @Vivaldi

yesterday had a historic change for me. since I remember I was already associated with Mozilla. yesterday I installed Vivaldi on all devices😇

@jon @Vivaldi Thx, I really appreciate this effort and would greatly prefer a European browser over a US nonprofit.
But what can you tell us about the use of Chromium – is Vivaldi fully detached from any Google data infrastructure or traffic not actively started by the user?

@jon @Vivaldi

I live un Québec. With the US government going authoritarian, there is a whole new non tech public ready and eager to listen to this message, for political and economical reasons.

There are not just open to listen. They are actively looking for possible actions.

@jon @Vivaldi

Does the existence of Big Tech implies the existence of Small Tech? Vivaldi, /e/, Linux, Mastodon, Raspberry Pi, Apache, Yunohost, and so on.

The existence of Tech Giants, the existence of Dwarf Tech?

The existence of an oligarchy, the existence of a rebellion?

@jon @Vivaldi Thanks.Would very much like to switch to Vivaldi but it's not a great experience if you use a screen reader. Is there a way to file issues/report problems - and is Vivaldi committed to accessibility?

@jon @Vivaldi As long as services are pre-installed on smartphones and other devices, the masses will always use them. The EU and perhaps other countries would first have to make it possible to uninstall everything. Only then would people be more likely to consider installing no or only a few US services.

@jon @Vivaldi Hi Jon,

I just installed Vivaldi on another computer that I'm preparing for someone (I work in IT and am moonlighting as a PC repair guy in my neighborhood). I have a small insight.

The signle most telling feature than won me over for your browser when I started using it (ver. 8.x, late nineties) was that it defaulted to restoring your previous session on next run. So the same tabs open where you left them, no questions asked. That was the revelation. The other such feature is auto adding sender of replied-to mail to Contacts. Small thing but pure genius that improve usability a lot.

Now I install Vivaldi and when I close it it asks for confirmation not once but on two occasions if I order it to not ask me again. I would get rid of it completely but once is surely enough. Or are there other considerations?

Best wishes.

@jon @Vivaldi Isn't Vivaldi chromium based?

That's my first question to a browser. If the answer is yes then my response is "thanks, but no thanks"

@jon @Vivaldi I switched a few months ago on both Android and Linux. Very happy so far. Performance and UI are very nice.

@jon @Vivaldi

i do like your vivaldi. lots of handy features. but i've looked at the socials and it is filled with hate. i tried to find something on catholicism and get the haters in the feed with their rejection, trans porn, etc. i tried the explore to see what's trending and find a few interesting things (nasa, history, cats, etc) but the hate is terrible and always the same people. i like the try vivaldi message but it creeps me out and i do not feel very safe here.

@jon When will @Vivaldi remove its own big tech dependency and contribute to @servo?