Minor update to Vivaldi 1.9
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@jon: I find it fascinating Japan is Vivaldi's largest country (happily since I have a deep connection Japan). The Japanese Vivaldi local forum isn’t the largest so it isn’t obvious. Have you got any idea why? I can't really imagine why.
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@BiTOk As an organization, Vivaldi is pretty transparent. I don't think that they're gathering much more data than they could already through downloads and update checks -- just doing it in a simpler, less error-prone, platform-independent way.
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@g_bartsch Co-founder Tatsuki is Japanese. Perhaps he's known there (or has various marketing connections there) the way Jon is in Norway and Iceland (other high-adoption countries).
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@Ayespy I'm sure that is part of it. But the Japanese I know there had never heard of it. Granted that doesn't mean a lot because the people I know constitute a very small portion of web surfers compared to the whole. But if the Japanese local forum here was huge I'd be less surprised. I do seem to remember Opera back in the day had a huge following in Russia? But opera wasn't from Russia. I'm not sure how that is now with the NeuOpera. I figured a lot of those Russian users would flock to Vivaldi as so many of us did. Anyway, very nice to know Vivaldi is popular in Japan. Sugoi ne!
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@g_bartsch Vivaldi is also very popular (comparatively) in Russia and Eastern Europe - I suspect partly because of displaced OldeOpera users coming home.
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Since Jon is responding which is rare I wanted ro take the opportunity to ask if a if a native user agent switcher function is being considered to help combat issues with DRM video sites incompatibility or if a effort is being made to help large services recognize Vivaldi as a browser ?
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@asianmusicguy said:
a effort is being made to help large services recognize Vivaldi as a browser ?
Yes, Vivaldi has an extensive list of sites where it changes its UA so those sites don't block access or break. Among these is Netflix, WhatsApp and some Google services.
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@an_dz: If I may i would like https://www.primevideo.com added to that list its the url for non US amazon prime members and ive been trying to get it addressed for ages from bug requests to user agent switcher requests so id love for someone to look into it eventually thank you in advance
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@jon: I still think @cqoicebordel is right at removing the setting, I agree that the setting should be somewhere.
I don't care about this info being sent to you because I know you don't sell it or use that for ads or other filter bubble crap.
But Vivaldi should also be the browser for the tin-hat paranoids
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@asianmusicguy: This is already VB-24319.
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@an_dz: I agree. I must admit, I didn't like the old "Report Diagnostics -- Help us to improve..." option because it was unclear exactly what data was being sent. The "Count me as a Vivaldi user" option that we had (for one snapshot) was much better.
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@bitok: It counts different things. On downloads, it counts, obviously, downloads. But with the upload, it allow to count if the user is actually using Vivaldi.
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@g_bartsch: Also, I have seen some themes for Vivaldi that totally burned my eyes, but seems OK in Japan (totally kawai ) so that could be a factor too.
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@stagger_lee: Except that it's not what the feature was for. It was only for counting the users, there are only a few statistical interesting info in there, no debug infos.
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@juniorsilva30: Privacy is always important, and especially on Internet. Knowing what info you are leaking should be mandatory before going on the Internet. After that you are free to leak those info or not, but you should be the sole master of your infos.
And since you have nothing to hide, why do you wear clothes and have curtains on your windows ? :p -
@mdnjou: It is true. Our number one country with respect to users is Japan. The US is number 2, followed by Germany and Russia.
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@xyzzy: Thanks!
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@cqoicebordel: That is the point. We know how many downloads we have, we just want to know how many active users we have, where they are based and OS usage.
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Dear Jon,
Today I used Vivaldi's latest stable version. I really liked the new stuff the company's been putting into this browser however the super high CPU usage by Vivaldi is preventing me from making this browser my default. Is it possible for your development team to start focussing on reducing CPU and mem usage? Would really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
RHSTOGUS
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I am an Opera user since version 6. With Vivaldi I feel like on the way back home. I'm just missing the link-panel - or did I just not found it yet?