How to turn history off permanently?

squirrlmcduckles

@luetage
Its google using its analytics to track you which is the problem.
Not having a way to automatically delete all cookies on closing the browser.

Just because your willing to sell your privacy for convenience does not mean everyone else is.

I'd rather have to type a little text in every time, than allow something like google/apple/microsoft/north korea/china etc to monitor/control their populations.

If you don't support privacy, your assisting and aiding repressive governments in their silencing of their peoples voices and their imprisonment of their people.

iAN CooG

Blackbird

@squirrlmcduckles said in How to turn history off permanently?:

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Its google using its analytics to track you which is the problem.
Not having a way to automatically delete all cookies on closing the browser.
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I've been using ChromeStore's Click&Clean in Vivaldi for some time to manually delete cookies, history, cache, etc. periodically. During a session, when the extension's icon finally displays 99 viewed pages, I habitually take a moment to purge the cookies, etc... it quickly becomes a browsing habit, and it acts to break the tracking chains even during a long browsing session.

luetage

In the end all your browsing data is stored by your ISP -- what are you gonna do about that?

If you wanna go full paranoia mode use Tor on Tails, but even this might not be enough.

tech444

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Catweazle

@tech444 , my favorite extension is Site Bleacher (FOSS), which remove al data from the pages you visit (cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs), less this from whitelisted sites. all other you "never has visited".

bogdanbozi

There is a setting "Save browsing history" which can be set to "session only". This means the history is deleted when you close the browser.

This is the only setting in the browser which is close to what you would like.

tech444

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Catweazle

@bogdanbozi , it is naturally also a good option, but not if you want to keep the data of sites, like this forum for example, that you want to keep. It would be nice if Vivaldi had an option to whitelist certain pages in this option.

@tech444 , Mail and RSS still in beta and all other what you say works flawless for me.
Some extensions related to the UI, certainly don't work properly, due Vivaldi isn't a puer Chromium, and this type of extensions may have conflicts with own functions.
For this, not so harsh, a lot of your problems probably are not from Vivaldi, but to some extensions and settings you use.

tech444

@bogdanbozi said in How to turn history off permanently?:

There is a setting "Save browsing history" which can be set to "session only". This means the history is deleted when you close the browser.

This is the only setting in the browser which is close to what you would like.

that feature is easy to find I hope everybody can. It's everything else that's a mess

tech444

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WildEnte

@tech444 said in How to turn history off permanently?:

I've been using Firefox well they were open source up to version 54 I think after that they went WebKit bought out by chrome

Firefox is supported by Google with money, and so is Apple for using Google as the default search engine in Safari. Firefox is still open source and still using their own engine Gecko, not webkit or Chromium. Only on iOS they use webkit because Apple does not allow other engines on iOS.

So maybe we can stop your constant and non constructive ranting by showing you that you were just as wrong about leaving Firefox as you are wrong now with your bashing Vivaldi? Just trying to help

tech444

@wildente in version 54 of Firefox they switched all extensions were written off… I was told then that they switched to WebKit.maybe they changed again who knows.

It doesn't matter they're all sponsored by Google.and were all going in the wrong direction.

tech444

@catweazle said in How to turn history off permanently?:

@tech444 , my favorite extension is Site Bleacher (FOSS), which remove al data from the pages you visit (cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs), less this from whitelisted sites. all other you "never has visited".

thanks for the tip very grateful it seems to control cookies from clogging up

I don't have a cash problem I told the folder to have zero write privileges... Doesn't affect the browser at all.

Have a nice day Vivaldi should have had cookie control. Oh well I'm here how can I stop previous webpages they stay there forever and am constantly cleaning it another ridiculous thing I have no control over.

But thanks for coming to my rescue I think cookies going on and on forever is solved

Catweazle

@tech444 , Mozilla.org, only visiting this site, it put you a tracker from Alphabet Inc (a Google advertising company) to track all your history. Vivaldi don't do this.

Eggcorn

@squirrlmcduckles said in How to turn history off permanently?:

Its google using its analytics to track you which is the problem.

What does that have to do with your Vivaldi history?

Catweazle

Vivaldi history is stored locally in the HD and sync encrypted in own servers. No Google here, if you don't use Google as search engine (or Bing, Yahoo and other no privacy search engines).

Inclement

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