Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12

Ayespy

@lyooth The provider has distributed servers. That is critical to the service. Vivaldi cannot afford that at this time. The provider has also spent over a year developing the technology for the service, which required staff and investment.

marialeal

Friendly reminder to please fill in the survey if you have been trying out this feature. It should be shown in the Privacy Guard menu after you have tested it for five days.

Ayespy

@marialeal Done

uyx

Didn't expect those great news. Never heard of Invisv. I thought it was something to do with Safing' SPN that have a similar raison d'etrê and also was build with security in and privacy in mind not as VPNs that weren't build with this purpose. there's too e. g. Cloudflare' WARP that also claims to be building different from VPNs (but in this case with speed in mind). So far I know that anonymizing networks share a similar protocol for managing connections. It seems that Insivs is a great product and I am willing to pay for it if Vivaldi get it on Android and doesnt bill more than e.g. Windscribe, and also if I can connect all my device to the network not just Vivaldi traffic. I know that Vivaldi chooses the best for its users and I trust Vivaldi. I expect many good things from this implementation !

mossman

@marialeal said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

Friendly reminder to please fill in the survey if you have been trying out this feature. It should be shown in the Privacy Guard menu after you have tested it for five days.

Ah - didn't realise that's where it would be shown. Okay done.

To summarise, in case anyone's interested, it had no effect on my browsing at all (apart from being in different "locations" and one website which came back blank) which is both a good thing (user friendly - I could easily add an exception for that blank website) and a bad thing (I'm not going to pay for something which doesn't seem to do anything!).

Edit: I suppose I'll leave it running until the trial runs out, just in case there's anything else to report - but I'll be rid of it after that.

WildEnte

@mossman said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

(I'm not going to pay for something which doesn't seem to do anything!)

But I also don't want any notifications like Virus scanners do it. The thing is supposed to be working fine without hassle. But yes, some statistics like for the AdBlock might help people be convinced that it does something

mossman

@WildEnte said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

@mossman said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

(I'm not going to pay for something which doesn't seem to do anything!)

But I also don't want any notifications like Virus scanners do it. The thing is supposed to be working fine without hassle. But yes, some statistics like for the AdBlock might help people be convinced that it does something

Yes, probably a good idea. I don't believe it "protects me" from anything when I'm already conscious of online security practices, but maybe some alarming (real) statistics would convince me otherwise!

mossman

@mossman I just found out that it fails to load anything at all if - ironically - I'm using a real VPN!

I have to say that when things don't seem to work properly it's just another annoyance in the list I have to check:

Vivaldi ad-blocking (occasionally causes problems, e.g. YouTube)
uBlock origin (rarely a problem)
is VPN on?
Privacy Guard

DoctorG

Now we should test Vivaldi 6.7 RC 1!

jane.n

One more friendly reminder, those of you who have been trying out the Privacy Guard feature, we would greatly appreciate it, if you'd fill out the feedback survey.
You should see a link to the survey in the Privacy Guard menu (click the button on the Address Bar) or you can go to this link
http://vivaldi.com/bk/shield-survey

Thank you!

mossman

@jane-n Ironically I just had to turn it off this afternoon since it became very slow to start loading any pages. Once off, loading was instant again.

When does the trial period end?

luetage

@mossman In two days.

Zalex108

It's over!

Privacy Guard

🥷

YriiK

@Zalex108 It's very sad.
I'm almost used to him
Is there any chance of it being returned in some upcoming snapshot? Or is this a commercial story?

luetage

@YriiK I guess the accumulated feedback will be evaluated and then the companies need to agree on whether to go ahead and offer the service to Vivaldi users. Won’t be a quick process.

lawleitl22

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Catweazle

@luetage, maybe Snowflake will be a better alternative, it's FOSS.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake