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ahofmanntoday at 8:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.


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turbletytoday at 8:14 AM

Because it's a proprietary closed source fork of Google Chromium. There's nothing to trust. If it's free and closed source, you are the product.

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gib444today at 11:47 AM

Privacy enhanced? lol. Install the Android version (similar to desktop I imagine):

- The choice in the wizard defaults to no blocking of ads and trackers

- Third Party cookies enabled by default

- WebRTC IP leaking is the default

- No option not to persist history/permanent incognito mode

Etc

I imagine it leaks your list of extensions just like chromium too

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