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I spend so much money on computers that I should be ashamed of myself. I am a grown man but if a relative or immediate family ask me how much that costs I pretend that I got it dirt cheap. I even quickly throw away the receipt. I promise myself not to do this any more in 2019! So now I try to budget and if I see something I like I do research on it.. I do not just purchase everything computer related randomly any more.

On https://duckduckgo.com/ all review pages are from years ago! and the only thing modern about the webpages are the videos that play automatically... and i keep on having to customise adblocker to block them.. And then duckduckgo seems to want to give me Japanese websites which have backgrounds that flicker with a advertising video that flickers so much you have to look away from your monitor..

I think I may be the only person who still uses the World Wide Web, everybody else is stuck on Facebook and YouTube. And now I have my suspicions that the Vivaldi web browser may be spying on me. All these software companies can never get enough of everybody's information. What do you want? https://youtu.be/zalndXdxriI

https://www.chromium.org/

https://vivaldi.net/

How does this affect forks like Vivaldi? I think Vivaldi is build using the Chromium source code which, according to this story, Google also contaminated with this change.

Have you checked out Vivaldi?

Your web-server based bookmarks extension sounds interesting. The cross-browser bookmark syncing I've tried in the past has been really clunky, so now I just export bookmarks every now and then to have backups, but don't keep bookmarks in sync between browsers.

The new Vivaldi browser is based on Chromium and uses its extension system so you can install extensions from the Chrome store. The most popular user-script extension is Tampermonkey but there are others such as Control Freak and NinjaKit. I actually haven't really used them much (Tampermonkey a little a few years ago) as I primarily use Firefox and Greasemonkey myself, but they should get the job done.

You should try out Vivaldi--it's pretty slick now. They have a forum where you can make suggestions. Definitely worth a shot of voicing your opinion if certain features (or weird behavior) make or break your using the browser.

When did you try it? It sounds like they released the first beta in the beginning of November, the second beta in the middle of December, and they've been working on bug fixes since then. Their blog has several posts through January and this month talking about all of the fixes and improvements they're doing. The posts have well over 100 comments each, so people are actively helping them test. It sounds like they're trying to hit a deadline but I don't see any release date mentioned for the first stable version. I'll switch to Vivaldi regardless whenever the Opera deal goes through, but hopefully they're able to push out a good stable version by then. They show a lot of promise, so some random transsexual person online saying it sucks because they tried a pre-release version at some undetermined point in the future isn't exactly a great argument against using the browser (if you're wondering why it matters that you're a random "transsexual" person instead of just a random person, I would ask why you feel the need to point that fact out). I installed a version when it was initially announced and wasn't all that impressed, it had basic browser functionality, but I'm glad that they are working on it. I'm glad that anyone is working on alternative browsers, the more choice the better. The Brave browser looks interesting as well, but they just started distributing their own binaries instead of linking people to Github so they're probably a little farther behind the Vivaldi team in terms of getting to a stable version. But having features built-in to specifically block tracking and advertising is something that hopefully other people decide to emulate.

I just played with the beta a bit on Mac OS X 10.8.5.

The good: A respectable score of 521 in html5test.com.

The bad:

1) Bookmarklets apparently aren't supported in the beta. I created one
javascript:alert("bye");
which works fine on Safari, but which gives me an error message "Inalid URL." when I define it.

And according the discussion here, other users can't do bookmarklets either.

2) I also wish they'd have a way for me to request a peaceful, quiet, calm, whatever you want to call it, mode. No sound, no movies played, no animated gifs, no carousels that automatically play. Of course, no blinking or marquee. Even better, run only JavaScript from the web page's site and bookmarklets. Don't run JavaScript from adware sites.

Content blocking is included as native. AdBlock can be added as an extension:

https://vivaldi.net/forum/viva...

... and one has already been done:

https://vivaldi.net/forum/all/...