The most bothersome thing about this new feature, for the Popular Sites and Categories is that it's changing information based on Geo Location.
Some people will call this tracking...
Some might call it spying...
Some might also say it feels like an invasion of privacy...
Hmm, what about this as Vivaldi's form of Telemetry.
However it's looked at, it is the type of thing, feeding information based on location, something that a lot of people don't like.
I personally don't want a browser or company to know my Geo Location in this manner, and information is being fed based off of my location.
So this is not about a so called hidden unobtrusive feature, not doing anything until you use it. This appears to run as you use the browser changing Data constantly as locations change.
You could say;
It Runs in the Background Data Collecting
It also makes no sense, that a company that promotes privacy and security would do this.
Here are three screen shots, with a VPN using three different locations. You can see the Popular Sites change, and the amount of Categories changes too for each location.
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