Spying by Vivaldi?
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@itexpert said in Spying by Vivaldi?:
is sent to a big tech company to approve or deny
That's not how phishing protection works. Nothing is sent to any company. Rather, unsafe site ID lists are downloaded to the client machine and using those lists, the browser blocks access.
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@itexpert I use puppy linux and have several pups running on 32bit and 64bit and it has zero calling out anywhere,it is a static operating system and the user must update themselves..Used it for a couple of years now and has brought new life to this old computer.
As for a firewall,The only firewall which comes to mind would be the GUFW frontend for iptables which is a graphical interface although i have used the puppy built in firewall mainly.
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@priest72 said in Spying by Vivaldi?:
Spying is such a nefarious word and should belong in the wonderful books of ian fleming.
Or perhaps to the works of Iam Flaming?
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@pesala Har har. No, really, har har.
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Sounds good, but are you sure that is the case for all browsers, including Internet Explorer (that invented it back then) and Edge?
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@itexpert I am merely chuckling at the pun. I am not referencing browsers, spying or anything. Just the pun. Ian Fleming. Iam Flaming. Hah ha.
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Thank you all for your quick replies, nice community, I will give Vivaldi a go. -
@itexpert said in Spying by Vivaldi?:
That's nice that you use Linux, I would like to use Linux too. What is stopping me is a good firewall.
Do you happen to know of a Firewall for Linux that will ask permission via a pop-up for every internet access of any and all programs running (firewall with "program control"), where you can then allow once/always or block once/always each program? It's my requirement, I wouldn't dream of using a computer as my main where everything can communicate all the time ("telemetry" or otherwise). Stops viruses/scams too.
To answer your question first, there is one called OpenSnitch,
but with regard to the first part as well, please don't confuse GNU/Linux, a UNIX-like Operating System, with Microsoft Windows that comes with TONS of unnecessary -well necessary for hackers, malware, M$, their partners and other good boys- proprietary (closed-source) services enabled and running in the background by default, and whose ports you need to block with spending money on software firewalls (analog to the need of buying antiviruses to battle their viruses) as the "press and stores" say, so that you have some sense of control, in most desktop GNU/Linux distributions there are NO running services (who provide ports) in the background by default (with very few exceptions & unless you explicitly open them for your specific program), thus no need for an extra software firewall. You can easily check and admire that in any distro using tools like
ss
,lsof
andnmap
. Additionally in GNU/Linux the network filtering subsystems are in the (open-source) kernel, which is the most scrutinized piece of software in the world.In fact if that reason is the only one stopping you then you are only scratching the surface, because if you do care about privacy and security I must inform you you won't find anything of that in the closed-sourced OS you are using. GNU/Linux has tons of ways further hardening your system, from a hardened kernel, to running proprietary programs isolated (not allowing access to/from the network or the system for example) to using ultra secure distros like Qubes OS.
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I keep getting this strange Opensnitch popup, everytime I open Vivaldi on loonix. Why would it be running an lsof command every time it launches?
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@ITexpert I'm not sure if you mean this, but Portmaster by Safing.io can do this. It can prompt you for approve/block requests, has lists and such. It's Free Open Source, available on Github https://github.com/safing/portmaster
However, it is in Alpha state atm.