A big part of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized, one server going down doesn’t mean you can’t see anything, the rest of the network still exists and there are still people using that.
I follow quite a few communities across the lemmyverse so it’s not too big of a deal, but I do know that it’s a very large and popular instance (then again, my advice has always been to settle on a smaller instance anyways)
It’s Spring 2018. The GDPR is about to kick in. Global companies are bending over backwards fixing their privacy policies. It’s tough. For the sake of their users in Europe, they have to come out clean with how they handle user data. And not only. They have to do it in a language that is simple to understand. It’s a gargantuan task. People are working overtime with the deadline looming ever so close. Enter Vivaldi HQ. It’s quiet. Everything is business-as-usual. A few days before the GDPR deadline, we take a quick look at how we handle user data and fit it all on one page. Much as we want to come up with an impressive document (and look busy), there’s not much to say. We don’t track or profile you. We don’t do data collection. We don’t sell your data to third parties. We don’t get to see the sites you visit, what you type in the browser, or your downloads. This type of data is either stored locally on your machine, or encrypted. Still, we encourage you to read our privacy policy. You should read privacy policies as a rule. You should make it a habit. So go on, take a look. Did we mention that we fit it all on one page?
Vivaldi Browser privacy policy
At Vivaldi Technologies AS (“Vivaldi AS”), protecting your privacy is a top priority. We strictly protect the security of any and all personal information you provide to us while using Vivaldi products and services. We do not share or sell information to any third party and we proactively protect all user data from disclosure, with the only exception being if requested by legitimate law agencies with a court order. Type and purpose of data collected by Vivaldi AS
When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), 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.
Vivaldi includes various links to websites in the browser default bookmarks. Some of those websites are partners of Vivaldi AS and some are not. Vivaldi AS receives shared revenue from those bookmark partners. That’s how we are able to provide this software free of charge to our users and continue to stay awesome! We work to only include bookmarks that are valuable to our users regardless of whether we receive any revenue or not. Some of these content providers set cookies on their websites (as mentioned below). You are, of course, free to remove any or all of the bookmarks, if you prefer.
Your browsing history such as visited URLs, typed search keywords and downloaded content are stored in your client profile and only accessible by your own action. Vivaldi AS has no access to this data. Your history cannot be shared unless it is by your own action.
Vivaldi features a built-in password manager, which stores your login credentials for sites where you’ve enabled this feature by selecting to store your credentials in Vivaldi’s password manager. Vivaldi uses password storage frameworks provided by the operating system on your computer device and your data is encrypted if encryption is supported by the framework.
If you use Vivaldi Sync feature, the documentation about the data we collect and for what purposes for this service is available here.
Type and purpose of data collected by third party vendors
When you turn on Search suggestions in your Settings (Settings > Search), Vivaldi will send a request to the chosen search engine with the typed keyword in order to display search results. Privacy policies for individual supported search engines can be found here.
On desktop and Android, Vivaldi integrates the Safe browsing API from Google, which checks the site you are visiting against a master list of known suspected phishing and malware sites. On desktop, this feature can be turned off in the Privacy settings (Settings > Privacy > Privacy).
We use Google’s form autofill feature that helps you fill out forms on the web more quickly. Autofill is enabled by default and in the desktop browser, it can be turned off at any time in Vivaldi’s settings. This feature does not send your personal information to Google. Detailed information of what is shared can be found here.
Many websites use cookies to identify repeat visitors and store information about their site visitors. Vivaldi stores cookies based on the user’s privacy settings (Setting > Privacy > Cookies) but how the cookie is used is determined by the website you are visiting and types of cookies. Therefore it is important that you understand the privacy policy of the websites you are visiting. You can view, manage and remove all stored cookies in your privacy settings.
In case you set up Vivaldi Mail or Calendar to access your Gmail or Google Calendar, Vivaldi’s use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use Requirements.
Do love Firefox though, but opera is stiff competition right now and has features I can’t find on Firefox.
Stuff like the built in VPN, I don’t pay for one currently and Opera’s free built in one really helps.
Also it’s very friendly with syncing between devices.
Opera GX is actually badass too, it’s super fast and there are so many cool mods that allow me to add background music, key press noises, themes from my favorite shows etc. Reminds me of the old days of windows themes and I’d missed it the sound effects and key presses are actually very satisfying.
But they’re horrible with privacy which is sad bc I thought they used to be good.
Sad that Firefox can’t do just some of that bc with just a few additions it would easily be the best browser imo.
It doesn’t really matter, Apple doesn’t allow any third party web-engines, so no matter which browser you are using, you basically get the same privacy standards as safari
Even though Apple is not sharing personal data with third parties, relatively recently they started to use personal data in order to use them on advertisement of their own services. And considering the entire Apple ecosystem(if you are using all devices of course) it is a bit concerning they are using all of those data.
Biggest advantage it has over FF is the dark mode option you have to overrule even websites and make them dark. FF has dark reader plugin, but that is a pale replacement for vivaldi’s built-in experimental code.
Is Fennec on Android like that? Still developed by Mozilla, but has all branding, telemetry and firefox-account stuff removed (even comes with duckduckgo as default search engine)
I think Fennec F-Droid is a straight re-compile of the official Android app with binary blobs removed. So technically it is the actual open source version. Firefox telemetry is open source (at least on the client side) so wasn’t in the scope of that, but there are certainly variants that remove that as well.
Last time I tried Ungoogled Chromium, it was a pain in the ass to install add-ons, that might have changed but back then I had to download and install extensions by hand, I don’t know if it’s still the same process nowadays.
You can't make a 3 sided object with 4 sides. It's no longer a triangle and is a square. It's the definitions themselves. Non-euclidian geometry would allow the angles to equal more than 180°, but not to "add a side".
Incase that is still a mystery to you, that means that the drawing is visually inconsistent with the finished part. That 180 degree ‘corner’ is effectively a straight line, if drawn to scale.
Technically you are “right” but you are also being obtuse (pun intended).
If you could bare to stretch your mind, and realize “not to scale” means “trust the numbers, not the graphic” you could in turn, realize that it is, in fact, 3 sided.
Every side of every shape is made up of infinite 180 degree angles and 2 angles that are different. Every. Single. One.
My school used to put a right angled triangle in the test and then say “not to scale” and then the angles would actually make it an isosceles or whatever. I agree with you that scale should keep proportions but yeah for some reason It’s not common knowledge.
Mathematicians dont want to to know this one strange trick, hide a secret corner of 180 degrees in any triangle to instantly make it a quadrilateral, without even changing the shape!!
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