Vivaldi and telemetry & privacy
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Hello, i would like to know more about Vivaldi's telemetry. It seems that Vivaldi does not offer the option to stop calling home and send the telemetry data off of my computer.
Is it possible to stop this? According to my knowledge it seems not possible for now.
Again, Firefox is much fertile in this and allowing to adapt every aspect of privacy and security. The Brave Browser going the same way.
I like Vivaldi, but i do not like things i can not control and change. My preferences they are SECURITY & PRIVACY. We live in a world of technological prisons of these powerful dark companies, so i am looking for alternative (human) attitude in the privacy/security behaviour. This is why we looking for alternative browsers. Super-performance and other features they are fine, but they are not most important.
I believe that alternative browsers they can fight with those rigid ones - they can offer in security/privacy something what is to big companies forbidden. This is the absolute section where alternative browsers can beat those molochs.There is a Vivaldi review here:
https://www.cloudwards.net/vivaldi-review"The only data Vivaldi collects from you is basic usage information. That includes the version of the browser you’re running, your CPU architecture, screen resolution and a randomized ID. The data is sent once every 24 hours, along with your IP address, which is anonymized by removing the last eight bits."
As said above, i would really like to see an option to allow or disable calling home i.e. to see improved Vivaldi Security/Privacy Settings section.
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@xtech , telemetry in Vivaldi cannot be disabled, true, but the data sent in no way compromises your security or privacy. This is statistical data, necessary for developers to better work on refining Vivaldi for all OS.
No specific user can be tracked through this data.
There is a much higher risk for privacy and security, depending on the search engine and the extensions you use, not by Vivaldi. -
You can read a bit more about some of this here: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/how-we-count-our-users/
Essentially, Vivaldi is moving away entirely from associating users with unique IDs. And without unique IDs they can't track individual users in any way.
