@catweazle Thank you very much, I hope I can help in some way.

@moondawg I really enjoyed my ferry ride with some good views and great company.

@pesala said in Let’s not break the Internet:

@catweazle Ironically, they protect their content with Javascript, which I had to block to get a translation.

In their case, at least they were the individuals who published the content, which seemed to be hate speech, and quite threatening. It might result in a jail sentence here too.

My point was that the Admin of the WhatsApp group was not even the person who posted the controversial content, but just someone who could/should have taken it down to protect himself or the site against legal action.

Obviously promulgate hatred is punishable, but the case in Spain is the following with a clearly blind justice in the right eye.
summarizing
Rapper who in his song calls the useless King> jail
A tweeter making a joke about Carrero Blanco, right hand of dictator Franco> jail
Journalist in an article affirming if he has a shotgun would shoot those of the party Podemos > no consequence
Five rapists released while condemning a woman for kidnapping her children from the abusive father who was repeatedly denounced

@chas4: Edit 4th

Vivaldi built in spell check is enough for me. I will not add any comment.

@pesala said in Big in Japan:

@ctrlaltdel said in Big in Japan:

I didn't realize Vivaldi is viewed by the Japanese as a strike for the good guys against the evil, stupid Muricans.

Not only in Japan, but elsewhere too there is significant antagonism towards the dominant American corporations like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook/Whatsapp. The EU regularly fines big corporations big bucks for unfair trading practices.

It is not a racial thing: it is about the small guy versus big, evil corporations.

I'm not convinced that the Japanese who use Vivaldi do it to counteract evil Muricans and don't believe the author of this article made a compelling case to prove that.

I'm an American and I, like many millions upon millions of Americans, don't appreciate the monopoly companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc... have but, I use Vivaldi simply due to the features it provides, not as a political or moral statement to make me feel good.

Maybe the Japanese who use Vivaldi simply like browsers that aren't dumbed down to virtually no choice or options like many Americans don't appreciate either.

When someone can prove to me, other than just saying it's so, that the Japanese use Vivaldi out of spite directed at evil Muricans/corporations, I'll reconsider. Until then, I'm going to give the Japanese a little more credit than this article did.

I'm just having a hard time believing that jingoistic or nationalistic urges are leading a whole nation to one particular Internet browser. It's just a browser.

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@moondawg URUBELCROSWE 😉

Enjoyed your piece, Jon.
Cheers, Harry
PS What an amazing coincidence that your 'local' soccer club's field should now be named after Vivaldi! Brilliant.

@mossman said in For everyone who types. IME explained.:

I imagine you have a smartphone with a touchscreen

I do not (yet). Yes, amazing!

@processing:

Then it falls back to lookups based on IP addresses. IP lookups can usually pinpoint you to a city level

Aaaaha, i see, ta for explaining this. My older --naive-- post in this thread snootily said:

Anyway, it's all irrelevant to me; ... Geolocation will always remain with its default of Disabled / Blocked, on all my devices

...& so this morning i had the ignorance of that remark thrust into my face.

Ever since governments the world over became fascists wrt their attitude to personal privacy, i have been using VPNs, & in phone & computers i keep anything pertaining to Location Services disabled [at least, to the extent a humble end-user who has not rooted her Android phone can, ie, not so much...]. This attitude of course includes my pc Vivaldis.

A couple of days ago i decided to change my default VPN server connection in my primary pc tower from its erstwhile location geographically proximate to me [ie, in my own country], to one in a small European country [thus the latency is now horrible (which always amazes me, given the Speed of Light, 'n all), but stuff still streams & downloads nearly as fast as before, once the latency lag finishes].

This morning i was watching some YouTube stuff, & was incensed ... really pissed off... when advertisements kept breaking into my chosen intro to Python coding video. I was annoyed for two reasons:

advertisements kept breaking in [hate hate hate ads] many many of the ads were in German

#2 pissed me off not for xenophobic reasons [far from it], but coz i realised that YT must have decided that on balance i was probably a German speaker based on ... what? ... i knew i had Location blocked in Vivaldi. Then i realised of course, the bleeding obvious; it guessed i was German or spoke German because that is one of the national languages of the country hosting my active VPN server, & YT must have worked it out i presume via the current IP address.

Thus, this event made me feel like an utter galah as i reflected on that stupid naive pompous earlier remark i posted. Instant Karma's gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head ... & it did.

@catweazle Love it!

That was an interesting read. Sounds tedious, I will likely remain ignorant and just tell myself the code is messy and the developer tried to obfuscate their actions by using timeless variables such as "a" and "b". Thanks nevertheless 😃

@ornorm Thanks, I also tried Evernote. The trouble is. neither are guranteed 100% copies of the page you are seeing. That is a big disappointment and the reason I ditched these alternatives.
Really, if you can see a page in your browser why can't you just save it as is? A jpeg is OK but sort of limited compared to a web page, even if archived.

That may be the reason Scrapbook only works for Firefox LTS.

Another interesting features of ScrapbookX (a relative of Scrapbook) is that it also has a feature where all you surf can be archived locally. ...

This Scrapbook function is an important feature that could help make Vivaldi UNIQUE.

@xyzzy thanks for your help, that's the option I was looking for. I think it would have been useful to mention that in the article. I found the description below that option, "retain zoom level when navigating between websites", a little confusing, I thought Vivaldi would forget my zoom levels if I left it unchecked.

@quinca71 The site added it.

@takaaki Thanks for the phonograms info. A guy told me there are no kanjis for foreign words.
BTW, I can write tiger in kanji 🙂

Please limit any discussion to the thread topic.

Any more mention of politics, or insults directed at other community members is likely to lead to a ban.

Good to hear there is a thriving Vivaldi community in the middle east. And I'm amazed there are still journalists free-roaming in Turkey, I thought they had all been taken care of.

Rado sa stalo @vankom 😊 (You're welcome 😊)