My first company, Opera, was built on word of mouth. The same applies to my 2nd company, @Vivaldi. We have never had the means that Big Tech has. In the case of Vivaldi, we have even avoided investors, to not end up like Opera.
We have also made it harder for our selves. We likely could have generated more funds through adding stuff like Crypto, AI or just plain old data collection in the browser, but we choose not to. We are also not an Ad company like most of our larger competitors. Instead we have added a wealth of features and customization.
Now people are starting to understand that just going with Big Tech may be easy to start with, but ends up not being worth it. In fact we now have governments and companies thinking that they need to move away from Big Tech and quickly.
We welcome you all.
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@Suiseiseki @Vivaldi @jon How is that abuse? Have you been forced against your will to use Vivaldi? Like with most things on the market, if you don't like it, don't use it.
The goal of the "market" seems to make it painful to not use something.
It is painful to use a non-proprietary web browser and each proprietary web browser that exists makes the problem worse and not better.
@Suiseiseki @Vivaldi @jon Your statement is logically incorrect. If a service is abusive, and no one uses it, or even knows about it, it does not matter. It cannot, by definition, be abusive, since no one is using it. Abusive depends on someone experiencing it as abusive. If no one does it, it is a nullity.
You must also study deeply, markets. There is no such thing as a market that wants something. it is the aggregate of billions of peoples wishes and
@Suiseiseki @Vivaldi @jon desires, as well as the people meeting those.
My point still stands, and I have successfully refuted your post.
