cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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  • Important context!

    They had to change this because newer laws like the CCPA classify some ways of transferring/processing data as a “sale”, even if no money is exchanged.

    What? No. Do you really think their “sharing” with “partners” who are “providing sponsored suggestionsdoesn’t involve money being exchanged? 🤔

    Here is an abridged version of that FAQ entry consisting only of substrings of it:

    The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because […] to make Firefox commercially viable […] we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar

    All of the other words in there implying that they had to stop promising not to sell user data because of some (implied to be unreasonable) “LEGAL definition” of “sale” is imo insulting to the reader.



























  • Note that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite

    Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:

    We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.

    In my quick search I didn’t find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven’t dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.

    But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.