A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience
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@Stardust So you believe Vivaldi actively tracks pages you are visiting to show you targeted ads for their own product.
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@luetage said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust So you believe Vivaldi actively tracks pages you are visiting to show you targeted ads for their own product.
Well, Vivaldi popup appeared at the same time I opened mail site.
Maybe site url, containing text likemailtriggers it? Maybe someone from Vivaldi team can describe how it works exactly.Not only me, there was already thread about it: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/102536/turn-off-notifications-from-vivaldi
I just saw mail-related popup myself.
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@Stardust You do realize that Vivaldi is earning nothing by providing the client and webmail.
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@luetage said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust You do realize that Vivaldi is earning nothing by providing the client and webmail.
I am talking about browser experience here. I see it as annoying user anti-feature that you can find in other browsers like Chrome and Edge.
I don't use Vivaldi webmail.
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@Stardust said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
I went to some mail site today and Vivaldi showed me popup something like "Try Vivaldi mail instead". Such annoying things are expected from Chrome or Edge but not from Vivaldi. I don't want to see such popups ever.
I also don't like the fact that Vivaldi knows the category of sites I am on
I guess a coincidence of visiting a site and Vivaldi self-advertising its Vivaldi Mail feature.
Vivaldi does not track usage of web pages.
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@Stardust said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@luetage said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust You do realize that Vivaldi is earning nothing by providing the client and webmail.
I am talking about browser experience here. I see it as annoying user anti-feature that you can find in other browsers like Chrome and Edge.
I don't use Vivaldi webmail.
I'm guessing the pop-up was for Vivaldi's built-in mail client, not the webmail...
But yeah, I'm also finding myself clicking away those things about dashboard and workspaces a lot whenever there's an update (updating a handful of machines with profiles for myself and my wife).
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@DoctorG said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
I went to some mail site today and Vivaldi showed me popup something like "Try Vivaldi mail instead". Such annoying things are expected from Chrome or Edge but not from Vivaldi. I don't want to see such popups ever.
I also don't like the fact that Vivaldi knows the category of sites I am on
I guess a coincidence of visiting a site and Vivaldi self-advertising its Vivaldi Mail feature.
I reproduced it in Snapshot.
I disabled Mail, Calendar, Feed (I used only Feed in the past) and went to the mail site. And I saw the same popup:
Vivaldi does not track usage of web pages.
Vivaldi clearly triggers popup on that mail site. I opened several other sites before I opened tab with mail site.
@mossman said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
I'm guessing the pop-up was for Vivaldi's built-in mail client, not the webmail...
Vivaldi's built-in mail client or Vivaldi mail service - it doesn't matter to me, the problem is annoying popup.
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@Stardust Unfortunately after update all my 2 Linux PCs and 6 Linux VMs got the nagging popup about Mail or other new features.
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@DoctorG said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust Unfortunately after update all my 2 Linux PCs and 6 Linux VMs got the nagging popup about Mail or other new features.
Same, I have several Vivaldi instances too. I wonder if it is one-time popup event for every Vivaldi feature or after some time it would reappear again. Not a fan of such New Browsing Experience
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@Stardust I hope the team will change nagging with such marketing-like popups.
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@DoctorG said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust I hope the team will change nagging with such marketing-like popups.
Don't be like Edge!
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@Stardust UI invasive ads – i do not know if such brings Vivaldi more or less users now.
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@DoctorG said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
@Stardust UI invasive ads – i do not know if such brings Vivaldi more or less users now.
I personally hate such popups since the era of pre-adblockers. Nowadays I see them very rarely thanks to uBO.
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I never saw any Vivaldi Popup (???). Apart it doesn't make sense to show Vivaldi ads to an Vivaldi user.
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@Catweazle I haven't seen Vivaldi Popups either. Suspect it may have something to do with whether or not the Mail component is activated in settings, which I have disabled
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Neither did I, until the new Snapshot. I suspect that since I use Mail and Calendar that I wasn't nagged with that particular remainder.
The new Snapshot has a pop-up that locks the browser unless I click a button that Copies a link to my clipboard for me to "Share Vivaldi with friends".
I'm really not a fan of this behavior
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@sjudenim said in A New Vivaldi – A Whole New Browsing Experience:
The new Snapshot has a pop-up that locks the browser unless I click a button that Copies a link to my clipboard for me to "Share Vivaldi with friends".
Interesting. I haven't got this one yet
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@sjudenim, it's strange, anyway check the URL if there is any redirection (hijacker?).
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I want to save my Vivaldi settings before updating to v7. My first approach was to go to File > Export, but there is no option for exporting settings. So I thought I would just capture the whole settings page. However, there is not an option, when on vivaldi://settings/all/, to capture the whole page, only a selection. Is there a technical reason for this? (FWIW, the option appears on some internal pages, but not others.) If there is not a technical reason, I can make a feature request.
Having a full-page capture of the settings page would also come in handy when I am helping a friend or family member switch to Vivaldi. For those who are mid-level technically savvy, I could simply email them my settings page.
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Screenshots of the whole page don't work in intern pages with the inbuild tool, nor with screenshot extensions (eg. Webpage Screenshot) or apps (eg.ShareX, only admit to capture it in several shots). (???)
