Post #2853290

2026-05-16 12:21 UTC

@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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@sebastian@mastodon.sebfox.net 2026-05-16 12:30

@hrx@mastodon.online @missingno@social.vivaldi.net We still feel the after-effects of the "browser-war" from the late nineties and the abusive behaviour of Apple and Microsoft regarding browser-freedom, right? I will continue probing Vivaldi. It's highly customisable, so perhaps I can make it mine. However, I do think @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net could consider choosing its sponsors a bit more consciously. Also: before you provide an image search where the choice is between Google or Bing, it's better to provide no image search at all.

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@missingno@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-16 12:30

@hrx@mastodon.online According to this (https://social.vivaldi.net/@TechieNotNetie/116402568097737684 and the setting's description) you should not touch that setting unless doing some debugging. Also it doesn't work; at least not for me or the normal UA string I get.

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