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Vivaldi is more privacy focused than any other browser. Brave collects user data [0] and Firefox gives you a unique identifier [1]. The creator of privacytest w

by dagurp 4y ago

Vivaldi is more privacy focused than any other browser. Brave collects user data [0] and Firefox gives you a unique identifier [1]. The creator of privacytest works for Brave [2] Full disclosure, I work at Vivaldi. 0. https://search.brave.com/help/usage-metrics https://search.brave.com/help/usage-metrics 1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/desktop-attribution-privacy#w_where-can-i-find-more-information-about-the-unique-identifier https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/desktop-attribution-pri... 2. https://privacytests.org/about.html https://privacytests.org/about.html

NayamAmarshe 4y ago
> Vivaldi is more privacy focused than any other browser. Yeah, no. Sorry, You're not even fully FOSS. Brave is the most private mainstream browser. Here's an independent research paper from Trinity College, Dublin about it: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf Brave Researchers are also coming up with great privacy research every month and this isn't just re-inventing the wheel by adding adblocking or things like that. It's real privacy research work with decentralized solutions integrations: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/ https://brave.com/privacy-updates/ > Brave collects user data [0] and Firefox gives you a unique identifier [1 Surprisingly you didn't mention your own policy: "When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message" "Vivaldi includes various links to websites in the browser default bookmarks. Some of those websites are partners of Vivaldi AS and some are not. Vivaldi AS receives shared revenue from those bookmark partners." "On desktop, Vivaldi integrates the Safe browsing API from Google, which checks the site you are visiting against a master list of known suspected phishing and malware sites. This feature can be turned off in the Privacy settings (Settings > Privacy > Privacy)." You don't even proxy these requests to Google, which Brave does, so I'll say your claim about Vivaldi being 'more privacy focused than any other browser' is not true at all. > The creator of privacytest works for Brave I don't see how that makes objective information wrong?
- dagurp 4y ago
  I'll admit that I went to far with that statement (this is why I normally don't comment in these threads) but I wanted to respond to your claim that "Vivaldi is not a privacy focused browser" because it absolutely is. Not being FOSS doesn't mean that it isn't.

by dagurp 4y ago

NayamAmarshe 4y ago

> Vivaldi is more privacy focused than any other browser. Yeah, no. Sorry, You're not even fully FOSS. Brave is the most private mainstream browser. Here's an independent research paper from Trinity College, Dublin about it: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf Brave Researchers are also coming up with great privacy research every month and this isn't just re-inventing the wheel by adding adblocking or things like that. It's real privacy research work with decentralized solutions integrations: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/ https://brave.com/privacy-updates/ > Brave collects user data [0] and Firefox gives you a unique identifier [1 Surprisingly you didn't mention your own policy: "When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message" "Vivaldi includes various links to websites in the browser default bookmarks. Some of those websites are partners of Vivaldi AS and some are not. Vivaldi AS receives shared revenue from those bookmark partners." "On desktop, Vivaldi integrates the Safe browsing API from Google, which checks the site you are visiting against a master list of known suspected phishing and malware sites. This feature can be turned off in the Privacy settings (Settings > Privacy > Privacy)." You don't even proxy these requests to Google, which Brave does, so I'll say your claim about Vivaldi being 'more privacy focused than any other browser' is not true at all. > The creator of privacytest works for Brave I don't see how that makes objective information wrong?

dagurp 4y ago
I'll admit that I went to far with that statement (this is why I normally don't comment in these threads) but I wanted to respond to your claim that "Vivaldi is not a privacy focused browser" because it absolutely is. Not being FOSS doesn't mean that it isn't.