Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
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Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#2A privacy-first search engine using Bing API, it's a joke.
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#3From their privacy policy:
"When you install Vivaldi browser, each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. 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. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup. The purpose of this collection is to determine the total number of active users and their geographical distribution."
Is this information enough for them to uniquely identify and track each user?
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#4A privacy-first search engine using Bing API, it's a joke.
here's their privacy policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy/
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#5From their privacy policy: "When you install Vivaldi browser, each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. 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. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the…
>Is this information enough for them to uniquely identify and track each user?
No. How could they identify who i am based on that information alone?
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#6A privacy-first search engine using Bing API, it's a joke.
Isn't that what DDG is using, as well?
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#7Stick with Mozilla Firefox. Don’t understand why people still believe a for-profit Corp will prioritize users rights.
... not to mention Brendan Eich’s divisive and controversial behavior befor he was forced out of Mozilla.
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#8A privacy-first search engine using Bing API, it's a joke.
As long as Bing doesn't get direct access to the metadata of the device making the query why does it matter? I assume they're not using the Bing API straight from the client browser, are they? They're basically proxy-ing Bing's results and add their own features on top of that. At least that's how I understand it.
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#9From their privacy policy: "When you install Vivaldi browser, each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. 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. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the…
>Is this information enough for them to uniquely identify and track each user? No. How could they identify who i am based on that information alone?
1) each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer
2) every 24 hours it sends IP, ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message
3) then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup
So, what they have for each ID: approximate location, CPU architecture, screen resolution. They can easily know places you visited.
From Quant's privacy policy: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data (e.g. user ID used, URL or position, nature of the operation, time…) for one year."
Re: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe
#10Stick with Mozilla Firefox. Don’t understand why people still believe a for-profit Corp will prioritize users rights. ... not to mention Brendan Eich’s divisive and controversial behavior befor he was forced out of Mozilla.
More to the point, it's closed-source.