@[email protected] , we do not have much of a choice. We aim to support our users wherever they are. Thus we support all major platforms today.

We will have to see how things pan out. I do believe regulators play an important role. They do make a difference.

We can also make a difference. All of us. Public opinion matters.

@[email protected] , we are as a small company competing with some of the largest in the world: Microsoft, Google and Apple. I wish I could say one of them was always doing the right thing. I cannot. It has been frustrating.

It is not easy. We make our software available on their platforms and we need them to play fair. They do not.

Our goal is to build great software for our users and supporting services as well. That is really what we can do and we hope to win over a lot of users doing just that.

@ppb1701 @martijn @Vivaldi

The browser ballot is not there on Windows anymore. It was there years ago in Europe.

There was a time where you could install a browser and the browser would ask you if it should be set as default. If you said yes, it would be default. No further steps were needed. It could also be placed in the dock easily, for easy access.

Microsoft has gradually made all of those steps harder… except for them selves. They are set as default when you get the computer and many of us have experienced a Windows update that more or less without asking makes Edge default again.

@trinsec @Vivaldi

Indeed.

@[email protected]

No, you can not at this time. We know that is a feature some would like to have.

Personally I use standalone installs of Vivaldi instead.

@[email protected] , indeed. I did not mention the tracker and ad blocker we have built in. Good catch!

@sajalghosh , thanks for the clarification. Will have a look.

@[email protected] , thank you for your kind words and support.

Have you tried looking for a theme? Pretty sure you can find one with the look you want!

@[email protected] , thank you for your kind words. What do you mean by TTS?

@[email protected] , yes we no longer have a deal with Bing.

@[email protected] , yes, we have deals with these search engines, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant and Yahoo. If you use them as default in Vivaldi, that will generate revenue for us.

@BJ@xn–lofll-1sat.is

There is a longer answer to that, but I would think that getting what you are looking for would be that.

I remember the time when Google entered the search market. At the time, some of the leading search engines listed results based on who paid most. Google changed that, but we are in some ways back to where we started?

@[email protected] , no, I do not think so. I think there is a lot of search engines out there and it is a lot of work to build one.

@[email protected] , for me, the most visible parts when it comes to AI is the box at the top, where some answer is selected to be the best answer. This often gives a bad or inaccurate answer.

In addition to that are actual search results, that are AI generated. Often I will have to go down the list of search results to find what I was looking for. The AI generated results are pushing what I am looking for down on the list. Part of the issue is also that search engines are giving regency a big priority, which means that more static content will just disappear.

@[email protected] , I think it is hard to do really. Unless you can recognize AI and other SEO generated stuff. If there is more of that, the results are, IMHO, objectively worse. Most of the time one is not interested in AI stuff, but rather information from the source. Anything else is, objectively, worse.

@[email protected] , a poll is actually for the purpose of asking people what they think. That is what I am interested in.

I do think AI has made results a lot worse. Partially because of the summaries and partially because there is a lot of AI generated content early in the results. I am finding it harder to find stuff I am looking for, that I know is there.

@[email protected] , we all evaluate based on our own experience. You may or may not agree with what other people are seeing, but that is what they are seeing.

In my case, I have been on the Internet since the start of the Web and IMHO there has been a clear change.

@[email protected] , I think most would expect that if there is a framed answer, that it would be the best one…

@[email protected] , I guess both. I have really bad experiences with the summaries myself.

@[email protected]

My experience is that the summary is wrong or not accurate more often that not and clearly not the best answer. I have learned that trusting it for even the most basic of answers, such as which terminal a flight leaves from, to not be trustworthy.