Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
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Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#2Cool. Was never a user of Vivaldi or any chrome derivative but adoption of mastodon a la activity pub /fediverse is a good development. Better than crypto/nft nonsense at least IMO
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
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Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#4I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out.
Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc.
Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a web browser.
[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#5I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out. Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc. Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a…
Is this still applicable as there are source archives here :
I don't use Vivaldi, and have no interest in the Mastodon for now, but they were smart enough to change their use agent in order to have further compatibility, that actually triggered a market share loss on paper.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-10-no-strings-attached-2/
Would be interested to hear if anyone uses Vivaldi and how it is.
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#6I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out. Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc. Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a…
Remember that Chrome is also closed-source. You can't build Chrome from source, and you can't check whether Google hasn't added anything nefarious on top of Chromium (and they do, at very least the DRM).
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#7I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out. Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc. Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a…
Is this still applicable as there are source archives here : https://vivaldi.com/source/ I don't use Vivaldi, and have no interest in the Mastodon for now, but they were smart enough to change their use agent in order to have further compatibility, that actually triggered a market share loss on paper. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-2-10-no-strings-attached-2/ Would be interested to hear if anyone uses Vivaldi and h…
The source is incomplete, you cannot build the browser from it, it's just there for licence compliance.
Anyhow, it's just chrome with extra stuff you can disable (email client? rss reader?) and extra stuff I cannot imagine living without (side panels).
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/panels/web-panels/
I do not understand why no other browser has the ability to keep a predefined list of pages always open to the side, especially for real-time communication.
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#8It's sort of funny how we've come full circle. First there was RSS. People didn't like having an RSS program, so a reader was bundled with the browser. Then social media took over from personal blogs & feeds. With declining use, browsers removed RSS readers. Then federated social media grew. Now browsers are re-bundling clients in the browser.
Everything old is new again...
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#9I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out. Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc. Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a…
Most of the world is closed source and if the only reason to not use Vivaldi is because it is not open source well that isn't a very compelling reason at all. Most of the planet is using some form of closed source web browser the top 3 being Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Re: Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser
#10I'm sure everyone here knows, but just posting to make sure no one misses out. Please don't use Vivaldi. It is a closed source browser [1], and as such we have no way of validating they have not put backdoors, spyware, telemetrics to send private details such as your bank details, website logins, Google account, etc. Stick with open source browsers, who's code is verifiable, especially for something as important as a…
Most of the world is closed source and if the only reason to not use Vivaldi is because it is not open source well that isn't a very compelling reason at all. Most of the planet is using some form of closed source web browser the top 3 being Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Well, no, it can be a compelling reason and the world can still mostly run closed source browsers. Those ideas are not in conflict.
Twenty years ago if you said "don't run closed source operating systems" people would've popped out of the woodwork and said the same thing. Twenty years later, a huge chunk of the world runs on an open source OS.