Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message
This feels like a finger print?
On desktop, Vivaldi integrates the Safe browsing API from Google, which checks the site you are visiting against a master list of known suspected phishing and malware sites. This feature can be turned off in the Privacy settings (Settings > Privacy > Privacy).
We use Google’s form autofill feature that helps you fill out forms on the web more quickly. Autofill is enabled by default and in the desktop browser, it can be turned off at any time in Vivaldi’s settings. This feature does not send your personal information to Google. Detailed information of what is shared can be found here. We are working to make this possible in Vivaldi for Android also.
The Tracker & Ad Blocking wasn’t enabled by default
And the google services were enabled by default…
Vivaldi is not really a privacy based browser.
It’s mainly just a customized chrome / chromium with some special sauce added to it.
And allot of settings you could tweak via the ui.
The browser is maintained by the old Opera dev crew.
They are privacy minded, but that doesn’t mean that they are super hardcore and rip out half the code base of chromium for it. IMO they are reasonable in what they do with it tho.
No. It’s a browser aimed at “power users” (whatever that means), featuring a boatload of features and customization options. Some may call it bloat. I recall they also have an email client built into the browser, like SeaMonkey. It’s basically “the browser that does everything” with an added ad / tracker blocker. But they collect telemetry and use some Google services, so it cannot be called a privacy browser.
4.0,x86_64,1920x1080,86400 ... Not much of a fingerprint… also, if it’s over https at least you’re not leaking your browser more widely.
Safe browsing API has 2 types of calls defined: one where you can send a URL to look stuff up, and another where you can download a list to use locally. The latter makes more sense to use both for privacy but more so for performance reasons.
