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Vivaldi is pretty pro-privacy. Every time Chromium adds a new API with privacy implications, Vivaldi makes a blog post publicly committing to disable or remove
by lmkg 5y ago
Vivaldi is pretty pro-privacy. Every time Chromium adds a new API with privacy implications, Vivaldi makes a blog post publicly committing to disable or remove it from the version they ship. E.g. the most recent update, the headline feature is disabling the Idle API by default: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-gets-more-private-delivers-an-all-new-capture-pwa-support/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-gets-more-private-delivers-...
They also had a pretty long post about why FLOC is bad, and I believe have committed to retaining Manifest v2 for extensions.
Other prominent privacy or privacy-adjacent features include a built-in ad-blocker and heavy investment into on-device translation features.
I'm not sure how much work they put into preventing fingerprinting techniques. I don't get the sense it's a high priority.
- merlinscholz 5y agoSadly, as long as they are closed source, there is no way to check their privacy guarantee.
- Ndymium 5y agoYou can find the source at https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/source/ and in addition to that is the HTML/JS UI which can be found in the installed browser data (though as minified JS files).