On Thursday 20 August 2020 12:30:58 Janek Stolarek wrote:
No, certain browsers typically make lots of connections like this: Chromium, for example, but Vivaldi is worse.
Yes, but the key question is *why* are they makling these connections. If they are sending your private data somewhere that of course is be bad. But if they are fetching data actually used to improve privacy? Modern pbrowser provide tracking protection, dangerous site protection, ad blocking - they need to get the data required to get this right from somewhere. So, to me the fact that a browser is making connections to various web servers doesn't really tell me anything about its security or privacy practices.
I did try out Icecat. This one is truly for the masochists. If I want a browser where nothing works because of privacy concerns I go with Tor. It was however interesting to try out something new, if only for 10 minutes.
Janek
Huh. Well, everybody is different. Myself, I like to know who is doing what, and why.
For example, just yesterday after you mentioned Vivaldi, I took it upon myself to use it (actually, Vivaldi-Snapshot) again, as it is getting to be that time of the month when I do use it. When I started up Vivaldi, I just happened to be watching my firewall, and wget made an outbound request on its own from my computer; the IP address was 142.250.68.14; and when I did a whois query, I find that it belongs to Google. Now why, I ask, should Google get something via wget from my machine when Vivaldi starts up?
For myself, I would sort of like to know the reason before I allow my machine to act on my behalf. And while I do not for a moment doubt that the good and kind folks at Google are only doing this for my own good, and I probably ought not worry my pretty head about such details ... still, I am a stubborn kind of fella, and I would really like to know their reasons.
So, if using Icecat makes me a masochist, well, I don't mind a little pain. It does take some patience with configuration, to get it to do what I want, but my point is, I CAN MAKE IT DO WHAT I WANT -- and nothing else. Vivaldi, so far, doesn't allow this.
But no pressure: you decide. ;-)
Bill
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