Vivaldi.net: a new home for My Opera users
When Opera Software announced that it would change the Opera browser significantly by using Chromium as its core, it was not really clear to many what this meant.
It meant that Opera Software would start all over with a new browser. Hopes that the Chromium-based Opera would support all the features of the previous Presto-based Opera were crushed by the first releases that Opera put out, and while the company is working on integrating additional features to the browser, it lacks so many that it is easier to list the ones that are already supported.
My Opera was a strong part of the Opera community. It was one of the things that bonded the community together, that allowed communication, the sharing of tips and information, and to keep in touch.
My Opera will be closed down on March 1, 2014 and there is no going back afterwards. The company has published migration information that explain how to move the My Opera blog to other blogging platforms, and also how to download the contents created over the years.
Not mentioned is Vivaldi.net, but that is to be expected as the site went up after Opera published the notification of closure on the Opera website.
Vivaldi is special on the other hand when you compare it to other migration options such as WordPress or Drupal. There are two core reasons for it. First, if you are a long-standing Opera user, you may know some of the people behind the site. There is Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner for example, founder of Opera Software and former CEO of said company who left Opera Software in 2011, and Tatsuki Tumita, former Senior Vice President TV Products & Services, and General Manager North America and Japan of Opera Software.
What sets Vivaldi apart from that, is that it offers more than just a blog. While it is still a work in progress, I was told that the company has big plans not only for the community hub but also beyond, it is already offering forums, ad-free mail, photo sharing, chat, and of course the opportunity to create your own blog.
While there is no direct option to sync all My Opera data with Vivaldi right away, there are a couple of options to move mail and photos to Vivaldi with little effort.
So what are the future plans of the Vivaldi team? I could not get a clear answer out of Tatsuki at this point in time, but that is to be expected. If I had to guess, I'd say that Jon, Tatsuki and the team are planning to release a web browser as well.
There is no indicator for that right now, but if you consider My Opera / Vivaldi the foundation, then the next logical step after that is to release a browser to fill the gap that Opera Software left behind.
This is just speculation on my part though. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.