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whoknowsnobody··on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
And you use Netflix to watch videos and Spotify to listen to Music, no problem in being offered other, personalised, videos and music.

But on Facebook people go for socialising, and not to get personalised ads.

whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Actually I don't thinks it's so surprising, the 90s did not have tracking and companies have survived and grown.

But tracking is probably +5x more profitable minimum, while Vivaldi or Mozilla might get some $1/user Google probably makes $5-$15/user. And the reason of all the tracking and why companies fight so hard against legislation that try to cut their cash cow.

whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
I think Jon said somewhere that to start being profitable they needed something about 3 million users, and Vivaldi already has more than 800 000 according to their page and I heard some other sites saying it's already at over 1 million.
whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Opera had investors who pressured Jon, Jon left, they sold out. Vivaldi is Jon & Tatsuki project, no external investors.
whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
It's fixed now, Vivaldi behaves like the others with keyboard shortcuts.
whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
And it will be saved in a directory named `Sessions` inside your profile directory. You can then copy this file and use in another Vivaldi instance.
whoknowsnobody··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
The same as Mozilla, default bookmarks and search engines. The founder, Jon, said that in every interview they ask him, shouldn't be too hard to find.