Post #2853289

2026-05-16 11:43 UTC

@hrx@mastodon.online @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net First feedback: I prefer not to have anything from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, or any other criminal and abusive organisation on my machine. It's understandable, you need sponsors, but Amazon? Really? Something else: How does this mafia logo pop up, when I am not using Chrome and I already have set Qwant as default?

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@hrx@mastodon.online 2026-05-16 12:21

@sebastian@mastodon.sebfox.net @missingno@social.vivaldi.net It is easy to delete the supplied bookmarks and search engines. Amazon - yeah, same here Regarding browser detection, there is a long history around the user agent header: https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/client-hints-or-client-lies/ https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/ Vivaldi, by default, identifies as Google Chrome for website compatibility reasons. If you want to change the user agent, you can do it without adding third party extensions - see here: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/miscellaneous/user-agent-brand-masking/ EDIT: UA correction - see post below

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