I actually like the idea of local LLM. I'm very against "Ai" in general and absolutely don't like when your queries are used for profiling and training the models. But if LLM can be used for fully on-device tasks, I think that could actually be useful. Local offline translation is one of such things I really like in Firefox and don't like with Vivaldi because it queries 3rd party servers for it. It would also be cool to process tabs or lookup bookmarks and history entries outside of just matching words, but also their meaning. Opera partially does this and I think it's neat idea, but again runs on their servers which is something I don't like that much. Ai (or more correctly LLMs) are not necessarily evil or bad. I use "Ai" extensively to process old or lower quality images and the results are often so good I could never get them with any static algorithms dedicated to details, sharpening or denoising. What I don't like are Ai chatbots, the way how generative Ai is being used by straight up plagiarizing copyrighted content and how unreliable hallucinating results are. On top of the environmental impact. Focused functionality LLMs can and are a good thing and I'd certainly embrace them to move online functions like translation into offline on-device territory first. And then think of other features that aren't over the top but functional and make sense.

AdGuard it is! Thanks @Pathduck

@ClaudeRobillard said in Windscribe VPN doen't work: My standalone VPN was correctly set to "France", but I didn't have noticed that I also have the VPN as an extension that was set in North America. Double? You wanted to be super-duper private? Or did you forgot which extensions you ran in Vivaldi? Well, now you solved it. Good.

@dannuper Unfortunately access to hires videos on media platforms depends on unfree paid/licenced media codecs, Vivaldi as a small company has not implemented because of high costs. HDR images can not be viewed by you? Check internal page vivaldi:flags/#avif-gainmap-hdr-images and set to Enabled and restart vivaldi:flags/#force-color-profile and set to scRGB (HDR) or HDR10 and restart

@barbudo2005 I only listen to podcasts on my phone using Podcast Addict. As podcasts are just audio files, mostly mp3 or m4a/ogg, and downloaded from a RSS url, the only way ads can be inserted is when the file is created or when the file is downloaded. Unless your app does it, and in that case, well, I'd stop using that app. I listen a lot to BBC podcasts, they have ads at the start, in my language, so I assume they detect my country from my IP and serve the file with ads for Norway. It's also possible they insert the ads on the fly during the download but that would be very processing expensive for popular podcasts. So I think they just have different copies of the files for different counties, with ads in the language. Anyway, easy to skip such ads by just fast forwarding a bit.

@MR2110 Fortunately, today we have this and it really is something very useful, I didn't use it before, but now it's difficult not to use it.

@XxSHADExX The Tinysid page I linked seems to have all the HVSC for listening in the browser. Unless of course, you have SIDs that are not in the HVSC in which case I suggest you get involved and add them to the collection

Oh, after searching in forum for posts about KeePassXC and Vivaldi Snapshot on Linux and reading some, i recognized that me and probably some others mixed up KeePass, KeePass2 and KeePassXC.