On Thursday 20 August 2020 15:19:41 Janek Stolarek wrote:
Now why, I
ask, should Google get something via wget from my machine when
Vivaldi starts up?
What happens if you got Vivalid Settings -> Privacy and disable using of
Google's DNS and privacy protection services? (I totally realize the irony
of this - Google offering privacy protection against 3rd parties. Duh.)
Janek
Okay, sorry for the delay. It took me a while to get round to your question,
but as I said it is that time of the month. I need to pay bills, and do
business-type stuff online, and Vivaldi-snapshot at present is useful for
those tasks.
I already had Google privacy protection turned off, pretty much Google
everything turned off, except for Google DNS, so I don't know if there is
much difference.
What *did* happen, however, was really annoying.
When I upgraded Vivaldi-Snapshot to the most recent build, I suddenly lost all
my settings: started getting cookies I didn't want, V would remember my
browsing history, even reset my home page, totally undid my preferences.
Then I tried to remember how I had it, and restored my settings. I'm pretty
sure that this happened once before, too. I was still getting used to
Vivaldi, maybe 6 months or a year ago, so my memory of the details is fuzzy,
but I seem to recall my settings were wiped after an upgrade.
Vivaldi is definitely better than Chromium. While doing a little online
research (shopping for hardware), Chromium made my system come almost to a
complete halt, and I would sit there for five or ten minutes just waiting to
scroll up or down a few lines.
Vivaldi doesn't give me any of those problems, but still needs work, I would
say. Or maybe I need to explore it further; but thus far I have not unlocked
its mysteries. It would be nice to look inside, like I can do with
Mozilla-type browsers, and Vivaldi should have about:config.
Among other browsers out there, IMHO worth checking out: Midori, Qupzilla, and
Seamonkey. There is supposed to be a Chromium-ungoogled, too, something like
that, available in repositories: Chromium with everything Google removed. I
just heard about it a few days ago.
Bill
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