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@vivaldi_browser maybe tell people you don't do this sort of thing: [https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/111027907021400159](https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/1110 <https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/1110> (social.vivaldi.net)
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@vivaldi_browser maybe tell people you don't do this sort of thing: https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/111027907021400159

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe tell people you don’t do this sort of thing

Neither the post not the original toot claim Vivaldi does [Enhanced Safe Browsing].

And your comparison about standard safe browsing is irrelevant. It never submitted the info to Google and was always optional feature on all browsers. Also it protects not only from links, but infected files too, based on their hashes.

And while Vivaldi having ad blocker natively is a boon as that's one less extension to fingerprint you on, it's far worse than uBlock Origin. Though fingerprinting aspect is irrelevant on Vivaldi as they have no protections against it. So there is really no reason to not use uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Browserleaks say other things, websites know my Public IP (this from the ISP central server), when I don't us an VPN, almost all other data, apart of screen resolution, The OS is shown wrong (Windows32), also most other data are wrong or n/d, which give also wrong fingerprints, or fingerprints of millon other users, The adblocker isn't even detected, because of the anti-adblock filters. Anyway, both Vivaldi and the Defender in Windows make it impossible to download infected files, they are blocked in the moment. Extensions, well, I can use them, eg.Trace for Fingerprint spoofing/randomizing, but then most of the pages I visit don't work or don't work as hey should. Thids with the safe browsing it's always a compromise between too much and too little and I think I have it pretty balanced. For this reason I only use the Site Bleacher extension, Nitter Redirect, Link-Unshorten and some specific ones not related to security and privacy (graphic Tools, informations, etc.).