“At that time, Google held an up-and-coming geeky business.vividly meeting with Google’s co-founder Larry Page, his informal dress code and his desire for the Danger device, which he worked with completely our meeting. Later, I met with the another co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, and got real vibes. My first opinion of Google was that it was a likable company.”
Vivaldi with Google was a good one. Combining their search into Opera supported them to deliver a better assistance to our users and produced revenue that paid the bills. Vivaldi improved Google grow, simultaneously with others that supported in their footsteps and combined Google search into their browsers.
However, later things changed. Google built their proximity with the Mozilla Foundation. They also included new services such as Google Docs. These features were great, earned quick popularity, but also showed the darker side of Google. Not only continued these services made to be inconsistent with Opera, but also urged users to switch their browsers. Vivaldi took this up with Sergey Brin, in vain. For millions of Opera users to be able to obtain these services, they had to drop our browser’s identity. The browser sniffing situation only worsened after Google began building their own browser, Chrome.
Now, Vivaldi is securing the Vivaldi browser. It is based on Chromium, an open-source project, led by Google and created on WebKit and KHTML. Using Google’s services should not call for any issues, but sadly, the truth is different. Vivaldi still has to hide our identity when hitting services such as Google Docs.
And now things have hit a new low.
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