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Vivaldi 8.0

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Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by aucisson_masque »

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser.

Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience.

It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support.

I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store.

I just don't get why they refuse to do that.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by hvb2 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser. Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience. It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support. I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store. I just don't get why they r…

Because of stuff like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660

If you don't have the ability to police extensions you're basically putting your users up for sale?

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by Barbing »

Respect the tremendous amount of work that went into this!

I appreciate the intention to protect my privacy. How does that square with Manifest V2 deprecation as dictated by the adtech company (Google)?

Also, for years I’ve been uncomfortable using Chromium as I’m uncomfortable raising that statistic any more, since I don’t want the Internet to be designed for one particular engine. Maybe Vivaldi 9.0 will be the biggest design overhaul of all time and even refactor based on Gecko like Firefox :)

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by ahofmann »

Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by joshuaissac »

hvb2 wrote: post #3
aucisson_masque wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser. Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience. It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support. I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store. I just don't get why they r…

Because of stuff like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 If you don't have the ability to police extensions you're basically putting your users up for sale?

But they support extensions on desktop.

The problem you linked to also happened on desktop because there is no VSCode for phones.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by atraac »

hvb2 wrote: post #3
aucisson_masque wrote: post #2

Vivaldi is all about customization but then they categorically refuse to add extension support to their android browser. Imo extension is the ultimate way to customize your browser experience. It's not technical difficulties, there are open source projects that have such support. I also don't believe it's against any TOS because some of these browser are available in the Google play store. I just don't get why they r…

Because of stuff like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 If you don't have the ability to police extensions you're basically putting your users up for sale?

Your users don't have to use those extensions, so I don't understand how that's relevant? People who do, should be made aware of risks and that's it. This is not a good argument against taking away their option to have that customization.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by eviks »

> If you have been using Vivaldi for years, you have your setup exactly as you want it and you would not trade it for anything.

You wouldn't be able to even if you wanted because there is no good way to export/import your changes for the trade to happen

Otherwise removing a few borders seems a bit underwhelming for a major version bump

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