“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
Well, if I were the team at Vivaldi, I would be using as little of Google&#x27;s tech until THEY bend.  After all, Opera 15+ and Vivaldi now both use Google&#x27;s web engine.  That feels like a major mistake to me, because it constantly tells Google, &quot;regardless of what we say, we need you and we&#x27;ll give in to your demands&quot;.  Attacking Google just turns into biting the hand that feeds when you rely on them not only for revenue, but even for the core technologies which you need to exist.  Instead of relying on Google for email and online office function, two options come to mind - either develop your own (time-consuming and extremely technically challenging) or support Zoho.  For search, there&#x27;s privacy-friendly DuckDuckGo &amp; StartPage, or Exalead if you&#x27;re worried about index size.<p>I was sincerely hoping that we would get to see a modern equivalent to Presto in Vivaldi when I first heard about the browser and who was backing it.  I think this would be a great time to begin serious work on that project, a new and proprietary web engine that&#x27;s not beholden to Apple, Google, Mozilla, or any of the major firms.