You sound like LLM before LLMs were a thing. Confidently wrong.

Some reading material:

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
• https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
• https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

Not true. First two were fired for that, these two were fired for “other reasons”. They were never inside the office.

<…> "in connection” with demonstrations that saw protesters set up encampments at Microsoft’s headquarters <…>

It can block some ads/trackers, but it’s very limited in what it can do. It also lacks all other privacy-preserving features that uBlock Origin offers.

Last time I used Vivaldi (early 2025), with the same blocklists setup, it only blocked ~40% of what uBlock Origin did.

They did, but it was paid. Now it’s free (aka payed for by taxpayers).

If only they kept to their original promise of supporting uBlock Origin indefinitely (they later switch their position to only support all v2 extensions until June 2025 using ExtensionManifestV2Availability flag) . It’s mandatory in today’s internet and without it Vivaldi browser is a non-starter no matter how many other good features they have or positive stances they take.

It’s just a funnel to get people to pay for LLM features…