Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12

[Ayespy]

@greenenemy Very often, the name "VPN" is a lie. Opera Browser's "free VPN" is not actually a VPN at all, but a proxy service (which collects and sells data). Many "VPNs" are actually just proxies, mis-named. A real VPN (which no one offers for free as nearly as I can tell) encrypts your traffic and sends it through a secure tunnel from point-to-point. A proxy just spoofs your IP address and encrypts nothing. As a rule, an actual VPN safeguards your entire system and all internet traffic. A proxy is only employed by a single app and, again, does not offer VPN protection. I would guess that Vivaldi would not like to lie to their users by pretending Privacy Guard is a VPN when it isn't, and can't be.

[Ayespy]

@Pesala Hmm. Zero delay here with Vivaldi ad and tracker blocking, plus Privacy Guard.

[Pesala]

@Ayespy Maybe it depends on your location?

[Ayespy]

@Pesala Beats me...

[Catweazle]

@Ayespy , the above mencioned CyberGhost extension is such a Proxie, I know it, but as said, is enough to skip country restrictions in videos, it's free, do a god job, is fast, anonimous and don't log. In desktop I've a real VPN (free) from Proton, which I rarely use. That is enough for me, for the use I give it, for me it's not worth to spend money for paid apps, if free versions do the job.
For some profesions or people in certain countries it may be different, but not for an old retiree like me, I'm to old for tin foil hats.

[TbGbe]

@Pesala said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

a significant delay (5-6 seconds) when loading YouTube videos (Vivaldi’s ad-blocking is enabled) when Privacy Guard is enabled

Same with Vivaldi blocking as "Tracker only".
Also a smaller delay when first loading these forums (after browser restart).

[Hadden89]

@jrkl said:

I asked for removal, but I should have said "remove from toolbar".

Well, you can remove the button via right click > edit > remove as the other ones (I guess).

[Capushon]

@yngve said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

May I be allowed to suggest (to you and others) that when posting/submitting screenshots that the English UI is used?

Ok.

I'm talking about the Ctrl+Shift+Del window, it's in the picture above, they lost the circular progress arrow (.in-progress).

[Kocho]

Yesterday I set the Privacy Guard on and haven't turned it off. Everything seemed to be working normally. This morning though, when I started Vivaldi I got 'No Internet connection' on my tabs. I guess the Guard failed to connect to Frankfurt. Vivaldi auto-refreshed the pages once I turned the Guard off. Also, I am using Cloudlare's 1.1.1.1 DNS. Could this be the reason affecting the work of the Guard?

[ourostra]

If Privacy Guard is ultimately a paid solution, I think more users would be happy with the integration of the TOR network

But I really like that you are looking for new privacy solutions and allowing users to test them

[yngve]

@Capushon Was starting to suspect that, but was not sure.

In any case, I just did a couple of quick tests in my local builds of both 6.6 and 6.7 (several days newer than this snapshot), and both flashed that status indication with my small test. (for reference: English UI language)

[daniel]

@derDay It should work on releases, tags, commits, and for individual file commits.

[YriiK]

Privacy Guard is cool!

[Capushon]

@yngve said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

I just did a couple of quick tests in my local builds of both 6.6 and 6.7 (several days newer than this snapshot), and both flashed that status indication with my small test. (for reference: English UI language)

Where is the indication, where to look?

[yngve]

@Capushon said in Privacy Guard: Your Privacy Matters – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3319.12:

Where is the indication, where to look?

Same place it is in 6.6; lower right corner, at least for my builds

[Kocho]

I think there are various ways that Vivaldi can explore to monetise, even if this feature doesn't grow up to the expectations. A cloud storage tied to the Vivaldi account would be one. Anyway, I would pay to use the browser as it is now, just to know that the idea behind it lives on, and the people behind it can make more than/ a decent living

[Kocho]

posted twice inadvertently, maybe because of the privacy guard, who knows

[Christoph142]

@alphy: Having optional features built-in instead of making you resort to third-parties is Vivaldi's DNA.

[Christoph142]

@jrkl: Vivaldi typically adds new stuff to some toolbar for users. How else is average Joe supposed to discover new features? But instead of activating it, you can of course just right-click -> edit -> remove and never see anything of it ever again. It's all about choice. I personally rarely had any use for a VPN and didn't miss it (probably not gonna use it in the future either). But if there is one that Vivaldi audited (and I'm sure they'll continue to monitor it since privacy is important to everyone at the company) and it felt like a good choice, I'd rather use that one instead of doing lengthy research myself if I'll ever need one.
And again, it's optional. You can just as well go for another solution if you want to. It's Vivaldi. 🥷

[Christoph142]

@ayespy: (S)He has been talking about INVISV, not Vivaldi.