Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng...
by unpopular42 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:44AM
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> The data we collect is not personally identifiable, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible. :)
Hey Gaëlle!
Huh? Unique ID + /24 + screen resolution is the opposite of "not personally identifiable". You may not use it that way yet, but that's only because no one applied enough incentive or force yet.
Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng...
by adrianN on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:16AM
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There aren't all that many Vivaldi users out there so the /24 is probably already enough to uniquely identify the user in many cases.
Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng...
by userbinator on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:28AM
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The collected data helps us to understand where most of our users come from.
You can simply log the downloads. I have no problem with that.
Can we please stop with the whole phoning-home trend? It's scary that such things have even become acceptable.
The data we collect is not personally identifiable, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible. :)
We're not in the business of collecting data, and we do not sell them to advertisers like others do. The collected data helps us to understand where most of our users come from.
Our stats show us which country our users are located in and nothing more. We don't do data profiling. We just look at trends.
We don't see any browsing history, it's all stored locally so that only you can see your own browsing history. If you use Sync, then the data is encrypted.
If you want to read more about our privacy, this article wrote about us at length on this topic: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/30/vivaldi-browser-privacy/
Hope this clarifies things for you. :)