I do have a few gripes with it however, although these may be simply because its just in the Beta right now.ġ. As to if its faster or not I can't really tell a difference, but I like the support for a much wider variety of extensions. It's been pretty good so far, I personally like it better than safari, since I can use uBlock Origin, return youtube dislike, etc. I've been using it for a couple days so far, after seeing (most likely) the same video as you. So again, that they decided not to do this says something about their priorities as far as user privacy. Considering Vivaldi weighs half a gigabyte, it wouldn’t even be perceptible. Oh, and just to make it clear: as a software engineer, I know for a fact that it is extremely possible without much effort to package the entire welcome page (including the welcome video) without making a single one of those requests. Whether you consider it a problem or not is up to you.

It is a fact that every request will leak some of your data (at the very least IP, possibly some system configuration information like display size, GUI language, etc.) to the server, which may or may not use it in any way. It is a fact that Vivaldi and its components, Chromium and Electron, make many requests (I didn’t have the patience to see how many exactly) without me undertaking a single action. Phoning home is an ambiguous term, I don’t use it to imply anything nefarious (although it may). > I’m genuinely not sure if connections from a default landing page should count as the app “phoning home” or not This is very convenient to established players, because they can rest confident the right to vote with your wallet is not yours and there’s no need to deal with the inconveniences of free market such as competition. We have been conditioned that “free” is how it’s supposed to be, regardless of what it actually entails (of course it’s free because it’s a pseudo-monopoly and its interests are strongly aligned not with you but with its actual customers-the advertisers).

It’s impossible to beat a free offer after all, it’s a division by zero error.

No many people would be aware about some paid solution, even if it actually is superior. I wonder if that’s just because it seems to cost money maybe? Idk.

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