Vivaldi has launched its own Mastodon instance and has hinted that it could build support for the alternative social network into its web browser
    • @Zerush
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      1•1 year ago

      Improve in what?

        • @Zerush
          OP
          1•1 year ago

          This “Privacy Test” is not such, it is a simple list drawn up, it is not known with what criteria, by a Brave Fan boy. It has already been denied on several sites. For a real privacy test you can go to Browserleaks or Cover Your Tracks, where a real test is carried out with your browser.

          Testing my Vivaldi in Cover Your Tracks

          Only extension I use is JShelter apart of the Vivaldi’s own ad and trackerblocker. Vivaldi is currently as private as Brave or Firefox or even somewhat more, because no cryptocompanies behind, like in Brave, or Alphabet and Google analytics like in Firefox.

            • @Zerush
              OP
              1•1 year ago

              Not so hard, part of the UI of Vivaldi is proprietary (~5%) but 100% auditable and even modificable by the user. The own Vivaldi community shows how to do it (if you knows JS and CSS). Nothing shady in it. Vivaldi isn’t closed source in the traditional sense. like Chrome, Edge or Opera.

              https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

              Vivaldi is a small Icelandic cooperative and the most browsers in the market arre based in Chromium/Blink, even Chrome and Edge itself. What do you think what happend with Vivaldi, if it make OpenSource also the part which it makes unique and with all other Chromium browser and it’s companies and devs, when Chrome and Edge fork it? There wera long discussions about it in the community. Not a so good idea. OpenSource is fine, because it permits to colab in new products, but in the case of a market with more than 100 diferent browsers and another 70 discontinued, OpenSource or not isn’t so relevant anymore, are more importancia in other aspects, like the ethics behind the project, a good community. and the support it has. Vivaldi is a Europaen product and far exceeding the GDPR regulations, which in the US products do not exist or only deficiently. If this does not convince you, it is very easy to check if Vivaldi sends data to Google or third parties (using Portmaster or similar apps), you will see then that there is nothing of this, no google analytics or google tag manager, like in FF, only anonymized telemetries, like update searches and tecnical data, like in every browser, even TOR.