Has Vivaldi launched a new browser?

[jwilson79]

I downloaded this browser called Shift, ($100 a year). Went to do a search and duckduckgo was asking me to add it to Vivaldi. I was like what? If you check the UserAgent, Vivaldi. If you go to chrome://inspect, window.vivaldi is also available in the background page.

Is this a new version of Vivaldi?

[indie1337]

This is some other company (Redbrick, out of BC, Canada) - definitely not Vivaldi.

[Pathduck]

@jwilson79 Nice find!

I did find this:
https://tryshift.com
Is that the same one?

There are indeed some very suspicious similarities:

$ strings shift.exe | grep -i vivaldi
../../browser/win/vivaldi_utils.cc
GetVivaldiStandaloneUserDataDirectory
disable-vivaldi
debug-vivaldi
disable-vivaldi

$ strings shift.dll | grep -Ei 'vivaldi.com|vivaldi.net'
https://location.vivaldi.com/lookup
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/ddg/tds-v2-current.json
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easylist-current.txt
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/lists/vivaldi/partners-current.txt
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/lists/abp/abp-filters-anti-cv-current.txt
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easyprivacy-current.txt
vivaldi.net
@vivaldi.net
https://mimir.vivaldi.com/list/languages.json
vivaldi.com
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/chrome-sync
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/chrome-sync/dev
https://update.vivaldi.com/rep/rep?ping_version=1&installation_status=
This file contains data used for counting users. If you are worried about privacy implications, please see https://help.vivaldi.com/article/how-we-count-our-users/
https://login.vivaldi.net/oauth2/token
https://login.vivaldi.net/oauth2/userinfo
https://bifrost.vivaldi.com/vivid-sync
wss://bifrost.vivaldi.com:15674/ws
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/history/api/delete?client=chrome
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/history/api/lookup?client=audio
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/history/api/change
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/history/api/lookup?client=web_app
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/auth/chromesync
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/apis/history/api/lookup?client=chrome
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/chrome-variations/seed
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/chrome-variations/seed
/vivaldi.com/bk/https://vivaldi.
https://vivaldi.com/bk/
https://crashreport.vivaldi.com/report
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/uma/v2
https://return-404.vivaldi.com/uma/v2

Especially the content of the shift.dll

Either someone's grabbed Vivaldi's source code and made a new product, or they have a deal for the use of Vivaldi's code. Maybe it's the latter, and from a quick check Vivaldi's BSD license does allow commercial use...

[DoctorG]

@Pathduck I already pinged someone internally in dev chat about this strange browser.

[Pathduck]

Even more, the resources.pak contains images from the Vivaldia game!

resources.pak\37200.js:

// Copyright (c) 2015-2018 Vivaldi Technologies AS. All rights reserved

[TbGbe]

@jwilson79 From user agent:
Chrome 91.0.4472.79

[jwilson79]

@TbGbe said in Has Vivaldi launched a new browser?:

@jwilson79 From user agent:
Chrome 91.0.4472.79

That was the least of my worries

[Pesala]

@jwilson79 It is over a year out-of-date, so security should be a worry. Ask for your money back.

[DoctorG]

The team will investigate and react.

[Catweazle]

Seems a scam, $100 for an outdated cheap product imitation.

[Hadden89]

@Pathduck Only chromium code is under BSD. Vivaldi services are likely under EULA/PUEL.

[Catweazle]

@Hadden89 , that means that this is a clear violation of copyright.

https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/tryshift.com/

[guigirl]

Despicable pondscum behaviour.

[DoctorG]

@jwilson79 Thanks for hint.