Vivaldi 3.2 for Android launches with improved tracker and ad blocking
Vivaldi Technologies launched Vivaldi 3.2 for Android on August 12, 2020; the new Android version of the browser comes after last week's desktop version update to Vivaldi 3.2.
The new Android version is already available on Google Play and existing installations on Android should receive the update automatically provided that automatic updates are turned on. Users who prefer to update manually can visit Google Play and hit the update button next to the Vivaldi browser there to start the update process.
One of the main new features of Vivaldi 3.2 for Android is the improved tracker and ad blocking functionality that is baked into the browser.
The new version introduces support for more lists that users can subscribe to and for using a custom list. Select Vivaldi Menu > Settings > Tracker and Ad Blocking to open the preferences. Tracker and Ad Blocking was introduced in Vivaldi 3.0 officially.
There you find options to set the default blocking level and to manager tracker and ad blocking sources. A tap displays the available lists and an option to add a new source. You need to specify an URL to add a new blocking source.
The lists that are integrated by default include country-specific lists now among others.
Vivaldi for Android users may enable or disable the blocking for individual sites as well through the Shield icon. A tap displays options to switch between no blocking tracker blocking, or tracker and ad blocking.
Note that Vivaldi is configured by default to show ads from partners. Vivaldi Technologies revenue comes from these partner deals but users may disable them under Settings > Tracker and Ad Blocking > Manage Ad Blocking Sources; all it takes is to remove the checkmark from "Allow ads from our partners (support Vivaldi)" to do so.
Work on improving the usability of the browser's New Tab page continued in Vivaldi 3.2 for Android. Vivaldi Technologies did improve the New Tab page in the last version already by adding icons to the bottom to switch between Bookmarks, the History, Notes and Downloads. In this release, users may now switch between open, private, recently closed, and synced tabs when they open the list of tabs on the New Tab page.
One of the distinguishing factors of Vivaldi for Android is the mobile browser's support for a tab bar. Unlike most browsers for Android, including Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Brave, Vivaldi displays a tab bar at the top to mimic the tab bar of desktop browsers.
Vivaldi 3.2 includes other improvements and fixes. Users who had troubles using the browser's copy to note feature to add content as a note for safe keeping may find the issue resolved in the new version of the browser. Other changes include hiding the bottom bar when launching in landscape mode, and the display of the profile picture in the sync settings.
The browser was updated to Chromium 84.0.4147.108 on top of all that.
Now You: Which mobile browser do you use on Android?
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.