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  Umpteenth plea of desperation for Vivaldi to kill the Google spyware in the browser
  

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  @steffie
  It only tries I believe. Arriving in unwanted places is the question.

  I run clean Vivaldi from shell command line and it does call google here & there. Using dictionary & spell checking definitely will call Google. Iridium cut the intermediate Google thingy for this.

  I tried to block them in my router firewall, and I see no problems with how Vivaldi works. So, that's why I believe it's only trying. Iridium does this too.
  If I start to use my extensions than that's a different story.

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  Why is Vivaldi not under a free license ?
  

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  @smajor
  Read here Vivaldi is not open source, but you can read its source.

  I think, Vivaldi development just really really choosy for who is who and for what. If nobody knows you or worst you can't provide who are you really are then bye bye.

  You could grab Vivaldi source from https://vivaldi.com/source/. Tweaks it to the dead, show your works to the devs. Ignore it's outdated, it's needed to judge your ability. If you're accepted as part of devs community, sign here & there.

  The closest story, that's what a user who enhances Vivaldi Windows/Tabs opening/closing speed done a year ago.
  Who's his username? I forgot again lol (yeah I know, cursed me).

  Translator volunteers not need that hardcores.

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  "The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection"
  

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  LOL. Typical MS Excel crap vulnerability.

  Does not work in Libreoffice Calc.

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  BlueBorne - there will be blood :P
  

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  Most Androids are already vulnerable by many other attacks - some even worse - so it's just another on the list.

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  Yet more opinions on FOSS V vs non-FOSS V.
  

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  As nice as it would be to have FOSS everything, more important is how the company is run. FOSS doesn't mean squat if the company doesn't really believe in it. Look at android. Technically, it's FOSS, but Google treats in a very closed manner and tracks the users to the N-th degree.

  Vivaldi on the other hand isn't FOSS, other than making attempts to open source (open tech like html, js + making some of the source available). But more importantly it listens to users and treats them right, and I think I value that a lot more.

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  SSL Certificate
  

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  You can let Windows export it: after opening the certificate, go to the Details tab where there’s a Copy to File... button.

  Alternatively, you can let a third party parse it, and download it from them; e.g. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=forum.vivaldi.net

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  Typed history is permanently saved in LocalDB
  

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  @Aronand Thank you for the updates, I'll keep an eye out.

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  DMCA used to remove ad url from easylist blocklist
  

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  I think ads (in the form we know them) have had their day. I see an increase in the use of affiliate links, subscription/donation methods, and sponsored content these days and I think this coupled with the use of ad blockers is scaring the businesses whose sole purpose is just to put ads on pages and get clicks.

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  Avoid Everything Yahoo!
  

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  Very old news, but all you can do is close your Yahoo accounts, links and search functions.
  Webmasters blocking Yahoo IP ranges is pointless as the email service which "had" the rootkit does not browse websites.
  It only affects people with Yahoo IDs that connect in to it. It does not work the other way round.

  Yahoo is now owned by another company (https://verizon.yahoo.com), who if upholding the pre-existing deal with the NSA, are likely to also be doing it with all their other communication.
  In which case now you need to block all Verizon, Yahoo and AOL IPs.

  In the real world, millions of people are forced to use Yahoo because it is what their ISP has given them. British Telecom are the biggest UK ISP and have used Yahoo for many years, meaning that most of the UK has a Yahoo account they are forced to keep even if they don't use.

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  DNS Security
  dnscrypt dnssec security privacy •

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  Not all DNS providers were affected by the issue. I do remember reading about dnschanger about 6 years ago. "DNSCrypt is a protocol that authenticates communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver" HTTPS is similar for fetching web content (DNS is like a "phone book of the internet")
  That The Register post is a follow up to this one http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/04/dns_changer_guilty_plea/ and they are talking about it starting with a cyber gang bust by the FBI & others https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/international-cyber-ring-that-infected-millions-of-computers-dismantled

  Also there are 2 different kinds of DNS servers, IPv4 servers & IPv6 servers.

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  Hacker Combat Network Security News Community
  

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  Recommended Security Extensions?
  

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  @CantankRus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

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  Windows Update not updating (Windows 7 64-bit)
  

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  @edwardp Did every update failed? If yes, you have to:

  Launch and run cmd As administrators Enter the following commands:
  a. net stop wuauserv
  b. net stop bits
  c. net stop cryptsvc Check in services.msc if the Windows Update service is running. Go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and delete the files. (if you want you can backup the files). Go to Control Panel and launch Windows Update. This will force Windows Update to search for new updates. If the updates installation fails again:
  a. download a new Windows 7 kit and install over the existing windows installation. Warning: Before doing this do a back-up to your files.
  b. If the updates installation fails again, after doing step 6.a., call Microsoft support.

  Hope that will help you.

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  Vivaldi Email Accounts Questions
  

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  @Steffie The servers are in Iceland.

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  how do i report bad sites on Vivaldi
  

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  There is no official way to report malicious sites on Vivaldi. You may however report the sites you believe they are malicious or scam through the Google Safe Browsing Site. Actually there are much more websites.

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  Annoying Adverts
  

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  @KyrtaP Glad to hear that it worked.

  I never had any trouble with it to date, and use it only occasionally as I don't often download programs from dodgy sites. Always go the program author's original site of possible - other sites (even well known ones) often include PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), which can sometimes turn out to be quite malicious.

  Malwarebytes update the databases frequently, so Fix that before running a scan.

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  Password manager
  

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  I'd recommend that password manager As for me it is pretty easy of use.

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  Default Browser Remove Some Deleted Browsers
  

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  @Gwen-Dragon - One saved my bacon. I installed some 3rd party software, and it broke my Windows UI. An "in-place upgrade" was necessary to fix it.

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  Repair Tower's Win10 VM.
  

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  Happier status news. I discovered from a link in the page whose link you PM'd me [Ayespy, thanks], that when viewed from within my Win10 VM [coz in my native Linux, MS redirects to an alternative page without this important info], this happens:

  

  ...& the result of clicking that button:

  

  [as you can see, it's still in progress in my 2nd Win10 VM, although it successfully finished a couple of hours ago in my primary Win10 VM]. The problem i posted about in creating this thread afflicted only my primary Win10 VM, not the other, & consequently the problem is now solved... via this major OS upgrade of whose existence i did not previously know [given i live in Linux, i stopped following Windoze news a long time ago, & only launch these VMs rarely].

  So now i've eliminated the significant problem, AND now have the very latest & finest in OS spyware that MS & NSA can provide; "Windows 10 Creators Update", = Version 1703, OS Build 15063.13. .

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  Tower & Lappy = Maui Linux 17.03 x64 Plasma 5.9.3.
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  Security of Vivaldi? Is it Better?
  

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  @danielson
  Make one then.

  Every time there applications that say "protect" something it will break in no time.
  Especially if everyone start to advertise it.
  Rule of thumb, if you can find it with Search Engines or Forums Search, it'll break.