Facebook is no longer a default
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Look. This is why I use Vivaldi. Agree completely with that decision, please keep up the good work. Cheers!
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Can you add some free social networks as replacement? Have a look at mastodon(.social) and quitter(.se). Adding these would be great, as they may gain more users making it easier to leave the big privacy invading networks behind.
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@allo Then the new ones get big and the circle starts over again
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@luetage Have a look at the mentioned ones. They are federated networks. When the main mastodon site gets to big and creepy you can migrate to e.g. chaos(.social) and continue communicating with the users of the main site.
And GNU social (i.e. quitter) federates with mastodon as well.If you trust nobody you can install an own instance just for yourself and still follow and be followed by users on other sites of the network.
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Okay, that's nice. Good, even. But why write a whole blog post about it? It's because, well, what good is doing the right thing if nobody knows you're doing it? So Vivaldi is joining the rest of the blogosphere in whacking Facebook like a piñata while it still makes for great PR.
Don't misunderstand me. I do think Vivaldi is being earnest about this. But it's such an easy "courageous" move to make right now, since everyone is whipped up to applaud it during this current news cycle in which Facebook is the bad guy. Listen, I'm not defending Facebook. I think writers like Cal Newport have been on the right track for a long time, and my Facebook usage has been extremely sparse for the past couple years, and only on my PC, not my phone. I'm just saying that Vivaldi's blog has become less about the browser updates and more about how Vivaldi's ethical stances make it the white knight of the Web. Sorry, but it's becoming a little off-putting.
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Good. Having anything Facebook related in your website, product or company is very bad for your brand today. That includes Facebook pages, like buttons and so on.
Facebook is tracking and storing data from everyone, not just Facebook users. If you have a Like Button or another Facebook widget on your site or company, you are helping facebook track non-facebook people all over the Internet. You should disassociate yourself from Facebook and not be part of this.
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But Facebook is the bad guy and so is Google. I'm fine with people that are Facebook users and the data they shared on Facebook. But that is not the case here. Facebook is tracking and creating profiles for people that don't have Facebook accounts. That is a massive breach of privacy. So yes, Facebook is absolutely the bad guy when they are tracking everyone on the Internet. They are even buying data from external companies in order to fill the gaps about their users. Just think about it for a second. Those people never agreed to any terms of service or agreements with Facebook and yet they still have their private data mined by Facebook.
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It is true that perhaps it is a little exaggerated, but on the other hand it is also consistent.
It would be something ironic if a navigator wants to be as respectful with our privacy, as Vivaldi and put on the other hand links to websites that respect it less, as Facebook has shown.
I also do not understand why the forum is full of posts, complaining about any relationship that Vivaldi may have with Google, which is certainly not desirable, but they do not find it so important to remove this relationship with Facebook, which I consider much worse -
Good decision, respecting your own convictions
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Today this article is more valid than ever. We maintain our position and raise our voice.
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