Built-in ad blocker doesn't work well on Bing

[dalinar]

Built-in ad blocker doesn't work well on Bing.

With google, sponsored ads (the ones at the top of the page) are removed.

With Bing, I sometimes get a couple of results marked "Ad" right as the first 2 search results.

It was annoying enough that I switched back to google on some profiles.

[Pathduck]

@dalinar Hi - Bing is a partner search engine in Vivaldi. Ads are not blocked on Bing, trackers still are.

Please read:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

"By default, Vivaldi browser’s Ad Blocker allows non-tracking ads to be shown on our partner search engines pages. You can choose to block those ads by disabling the “Allow ads from our partners” list in the ad blocker sources."
https://vivaldi.com/features/ad-blocker/

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/tracking-and-ad-blocking/#Blocking_Sources

[dalinar]

ah great, I didn't realize there was a setting for it

[Pesala]

@dalinar Try Ecosia. It is much less annoying than Bing, and has better privacy than Google. Plus, each search plants a tree somewhere in the world.

[dalinar]

@Pesala bing I don't find particularly annoying.. google is if you use a vpn because it always asks you if you are a robot and much of the time it does that it wants you to work for them as their slave, clicking on photos.

ecosia accidentally loaded for me when i did a right menu context search from visual studio of all places - into vivaldi but I do find that site annoying because of this tree box they have at the bottom of search results.

qwant seemed pretty decent but i found it slower than bing even though i'm pretty sure it uses bing results.

[dalinar]

seems like you is good, visually pleasing and I didn't try it for regular searches but the code search is great