I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.
To be clear, I’m not talking about stock “no settings changed” Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.
Thanks!
Are you sure about the telemetry? Just watched an interview between the CEO and Techlore. And the CEO said that there is strictly no telemetrics…
did you expect the company’s CEO to say that they spy on you?
If you’ve followed the community and the company you get the feel that they’re very open, honest and authentic. I’ve wag he’d multiple interviews and oloowed their CEO for a while, genuinely a guy who wants to make a good and honest browser. Compared to Brave this wins me atleast over. But each to their own.
The one I know about1 is the data being sent every 24 hours with a unique ID that they use to count active users. I’m not sure, I mostly do trust they won’t do anything weird with this and use Vivaldi sometimes, I guess it’s up to you to decide if you want to continue using.
ah yeah I believe he said that this was the only thing being sent as they did need to know how many people use their browser. But even this, he said was done with a simple ping request, nothing more.