Daniel Aleksandersen

How come the #Mozilla Pocket service/app is still so bad at saving articles? It has not improved in over a decade. It pulls in lots of junk along with the article while missing large sections of text. Confusingly, Mozilla Readability (“reader view” inside Firefox) is great at the same task. #ReadingList Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-03-01

How come the #Mozilla Pocket service/app is still so bad at saving articles? It has not improved in over a decade. It pulls in lots of junk along with the article while missing large sections of text. Mozilla Readability (“reader view” inside Firefox) is great at the same task. #ReadingList Posted on Bluesky on 2025-03-01

When did checking a box in an app labeled “Reason” and then look at the words “Reasoning…” for a minute become normal? #GenerativeAI Posted on Bluesky on 2025-02-20

When did checking a box in an app labeled “Reason” and then look at the words “Reasoning…” for a minute become normal? #GenerativeAI Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-20

Why is the UK government going after individual apps with its request for access to messages? Not to give anyone ideas, but it should pursue the various software keyboard app vendors instead. These apps are in a position to capture everything you type into any app. #TotalSurveillance #Privacy #UKGov #InvestigatoryPowersAct #SnoopersCharter Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-14

Anyone else seeing lots of delivery errors in @signalapp today? Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-14

Minor update (6) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 6.8

This update includes a security fix from Chromium upstream to resolve “CVE-2024-7965: Heap Corruption in V8”.

Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3

You can now manage your saved autofill credit cards and addresses in Settings: Privacy.

‘Do-Not-Track’ privacy setting gets legal backing in Germany

Legislators are finally paying attention to concerns about how our digital data is tracked, collected, and stored. Find out what this game-changing ruling means and how it could affect us.

Sync privacy incident affecting our Snapshot test users

A privacy incident affected our Snapshot test users in versions 6.4.3160.25 through 6.4.3160.30 for desktop.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.

The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key

You can’t throw out your worn-out USB security keys when you can’t recall what locks they’re for. Physical security tokens come with their own problems.