Tldr; we don’t make money
What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
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Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#12I don't really know Vivaldi. They mention that they do not track you, but do they make some effort to avoid being tracked by others? For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting Does Vivaldi do something similar?
> For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting ... while sending all URLs you visit to google for "safe browsing".
Firefox fetches URLs hashes from Google and then checks the URLs you visit against that list. Only if there is a match Firefox will send the hash(not the URL) to Google to verify that there isn't a hash conflict.
Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#13I've tried Vivaldi on all my devices for several months but it has several annoying quirks: - Videos are jerky compared to Chrome. It doesn't matter if hardware acceleration is on or off, and it's at least on macOs and Windows. - Scrolling is either slow (if hardware acceleration is off) or shows a blank page as you scroll (if hardware acceleration is on). Chrome works fine with hardware acceleration. - Caching is we…
There is something about this browser. I've been trying to use it as the main browser since it's first launched, but it always feel kind of janky. Can't remember the specifics since last I tried was circa 2019.
Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#14I've tried Vivaldi on all my devices for several months but it has several annoying quirks: - Videos are jerky compared to Chrome. It doesn't matter if hardware acceleration is on or off, and it's at least on macOs and Windows. - Scrolling is either slow (if hardware acceleration is off) or shows a blank page as you scroll (if hardware acceleration is on). Chrome works fine with hardware acceleration. - Caching is we…
The worst one for me is the lack of visual feedback after clicking on a link. It makes me question whether I clicked properly and leads me to click again.
Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#15Tldr; we don’t make money
This is plain wrong, as the article clearly lists all the ways Vivaldi makes money
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting ... while sending all URLs you visit to google for "safe browsing".
Does it happen even if Google isn't the default search engine? If yes, where do I disable it? Depending on your answer, this might be the last straw in my relationship with FF.
I don't believe the claim was at all accurate; see the other responses about how Safe Browsing works.
Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#17I don't really know Vivaldi. They mention that they do not track you, but do they make some effort to avoid being tracked by others? For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting Does Vivaldi do something similar?
> For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting ... while sending all URLs you visit to google for "safe browsing".
Don't spread FUD.
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#18Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#19I don't really know Vivaldi. They mention that they do not track you, but do they make some effort to avoid being tracked by others? For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting Does Vivaldi do something similar?
> For example: firefox reduces the timestamp precision on your mouse events to prevent fingerprinting ... while sending all URLs you visit to google for "safe browsing".
I disable that feature even though I don't think that they send every URLs for this purpose.
Re: What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
#20vivaldi and brave are competing for the same set of users...
i currently use and am happy with brave...
hopefully both do well...