@stefano And yet they keep popping up from time to time

@stux and we'll restlessly continue to disable them

@stefano Exactly!

@stux What are you talking about? There is *so much horizontal space* you could have five sidebars and still have room to spare.

I only need one sidebar, though. It has all my bookmarks.

@stux So I use Vivaldi and my first use on any platform with it (I refuse to sync accounts to a central location) is to turn off almost everything. No Notes, no History, no sidebars, no Speed Dial, etc. Vivaldi's configurebility is also its most annoying feature.

@Krazov
I think they mean browser sidebars rather than content sidebars.

I still like the menu on the left side of websites because most screens are too wide to display text legibly anyway (without leaving lots of useless whitespace on the left and right).

@stux

@aerofreak @stux But that's not a *side* bar but a *scroll* bar. So I still think that it's about the content.

(Why scrollbar is needed: because of accessibility. I don't think I'll find it now, but I read a thread a while back on it.)

Content-wise, 80% of people use mobile devices to access content, so you need a single column look in place anyway, and I always find it distracting. When you're in the article, that's the only thing you should see. But I'm a radical in this minimalism.

@Krazov
Well ...
@stux, did you mean a side bar introduced by the browser itself, like for that AI shit, or did I misunderstand you entirely?

@aerofreak @Krazov Yes, the one intergrated into the browser itself with useless stuff

@stux @aerofreak Okay. My browser doesn't have that, so I misunderstood.