The great tracker blocker conundrum – Technical
December 5, 2024
In the spirit of keeping Vivaldi free for all our users, we are trying out some changes to the way our tracker blocker works. These changes relate to ways in which our tracker blocker was affecting our partnership with search engines in unexpected ways.
Why Vivaldi won’t follow the current AI trend?
February 5, 2024
Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We addresses them here.
NEW: What’s happening with Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
November 3, 2023
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back. Read the latest on it.
Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers
September 23, 2022
Vivaldi comes with its own built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker, tons of customization options, a built-in Mail and Calendar, and more. Will it follow Google’s strict reliance on Manifest V3? Vivaldi Developer, Julien Picalausa takes a deep dive into this matter.
Why isn’t Vivaldi browser open-source?
September 9, 2021
People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.
Vivaldi browser and open-source
July 30, 2020
People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.
Why we introduced Ad blocker to Vivaldi browser
April 23, 2020
Vivaldi 3.0 landed with a built-in Ad blocker. Here’s why we took this step (along with advice on how to help your favorite websites still generate revenue).
Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker
April 22, 2020
Vivaldi incorporates DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar-powered blocklist. Here’s what that means for your browsing.
How we count our users
August 14, 2019
Starting with the upcoming Stable release, we will change the way we count our users, gradually dropping the use of the unique ID for user counting.
Encryption keys and usability in Vivaldi and other browsers
November 19, 2018
Have you ever wondered how browsers handle the user-facing portion of data-encryption? Julien Picalausa explains this in details, as well as goes into how Vivaldi’s encryption key is handled.
Sync hits Vivaldi Stable
September 26, 2018
Vivaldi can now seamlessly and securely sync your data between multiple computers. Our Sync lead takes a look at what we’ve accomplished so far and what’s next for Vivaldi’s Sync.
Sync: Status update
March 7, 2018
We have been a bit quiet on the Sync front but that’s only because we’ve been very busy working on the Sync server. Take a look at this important timeline.