Please improve Vivaldi's engine-level malware and ad/tracker detection/control.
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Just a minor note, I know there are similar topics to this, but all of them seem to only focus on ads and trackers, where as this topic aims at the entire spectrum of web malware (such as XSS, fingerprinting, anonymity, etc)
Currently the malware blocking capabilities are just at the black-box "trust us" level using basic lists that offer no more control than the mobile firewall Blokada5...
I'm currently seeing no implementations (at least that I'm aware of) for detecting malware within the dynamic web content, or even so much as notifying the user of a malicious breach through the browser.It's not currently certain how hard Vivaldi tries to prevent websites from collecting info related to browser history, open/total tabs, website/media engagement, and more that's supposed to be restricted...
Nor does there seem to be much if any implementation to detect/prevent/notify of such events.If I visit a malicious domain like
discord.gg
, and a malicious individual tries to collect info from my browser using some well known, yet unpatched exploit, I would prefer to be notified about what exactly happened, and what abnormal operation exactly was detected and prevented.
But malware aside, even the basic functionality that already exists is severely lacking in comparison to the code the functionality is copied from.
So from here, I'd like to suggest some major improvements even greater than what's copied...
such as:-
Detecting and filtering specific Page content categories per domain: (uMatrix)
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Applying more fine-grained domain blocking/bypassing control per page: (uBlock Origin)
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Removing Google's
Enhanced(Reduced) Protection spyware falsely-advertized as security:
^ this functionality relates to the blockers (I don't have a content-related image though), so that's why it's suggested here. -
Adding the ability to raise push notifications on a HIPS-like event
There's probably more I could suggest that I'm currently forgetting, but this should most of the important stuff a web browser should feature for malware blocking (or even just basic ad/tracker/JS blocking)
I hope to see things improved/implemented
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@tcll said in Please improve Vivaldi's engine-level malware and ad/tracker detection/control.:
If I visit a malicious domain like …
Don't link to malicious domains! If you must list a malicious domain (and that should be avoided), do it in this format:
example (dot) com
So that it won't get turned into a link, and so that people are less likely visit it by mistake.
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@eggcorn I've modified my post so it's even less malicious than the official discord domain.
(if it were something that wasn't so commonly shared about, I would've done that from the start for your very reasoning)But to avoid yourself sounding hypocritical, vivaldi.com also has malicious links to Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.
Those links are just as malicious as the official root domain I posted, so careful when tooting your own horn.
(not sure how malicious Telegram is, even though servers have fake (hacker/government-owned) master-key encryption, everything else seems legit) -
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