How a browser protects your privacy
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The browser is likely the application you use the most on your computer. But what can your browser do to protect your online privacy? Take a look.
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Good points.
One thing to add about "Private Mode": It means private from between the websites you visit - e.g. facebook in a private window can't know what you browsed in a regular session.
It does not mean private from your ISP or government (depending on where you live), and private mode does not necessarily mean that no data will be left on your computer's hard disk.
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Something I really wish Vivaldi had (both as a privacy and a multi-account productivity feature) is the capability to have both unique, persistent website containers like Firefox has (via the Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on) as well as "private tabs" (like you'd have by using the Temporary Containers add-on). Those two add-ons are honestly the most enticing reason I'd switch over to using Firefox. Any chance we'd ever get those?
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Blocking third-party cookies usually works, however, it does occasionally cause a website not to work properly if the website uses multiple domains for its content.
Sites such as Vivaldi.com & Vivaldi.net
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@joshstrobl: Both require significant changes to Chromium. But we are thinking of ways to implement these.
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Hello
Thank you for this Checklist.
Less AddOn means more Security. Excluded "uMatrix" to control JavaScript.https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf
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@olgaa: That's great to hear. I'm hopeful this is something we'll see in Vivaldi's fork of Chromium in the future, alongside any necessary adjustments to extension manifest APIs should Chromium's proposed changes become finalized in their current form, which grossly impact extension developers.
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This blog post should be linked in his category too: https://vivaldi.com/category/security/
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Where can I read about how Vivaldi uses and protects my iCloud username and password it asks for when setting up my iCloud calendar to work with Vivaldi. Entering my iCloud (Apple) ID into a non-Apple product does not seem safe. Thanks.
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@EnvisionIt It is best to ask questions in a new thread rather than buried in the thread of a 4 year old article, but fortunately someone was looking at these comments
Vivaldi stores calendar account credentials in the same encrypted password storage as it uses for website logins. This password storage system is provided by the Chromium browser engine. The credentials end up in a SQLite database file. The passwords in that file are encrypted, and the encryption key is stored in the MacOS Keychain. That only allows Vivaldi to access the encryption key. So in the end, they are protected by something provided by MacOS.
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