Please note that the privacy policy quoted earlier on this thread was not that governing the use of the Vivaldi browser. It was linked to by that policy as affecting certain "search services". So far as I can see, there's nothing in the browser that forces you to use those services, which are provided by an Israeli company called ClientConnect Ltd. Using Vivaldi does not of itself constitute using those services, nor does it appear to me that anyone is being forced to use any such services. Indeed I'm a bit mystified as to how I would use them! (I selected DuckDuckGo for my searches and that's what applies from the address field and from the search field.)
Even the Vivaldi Privacy Policy itself does not cover the use of the Vivaldi browser. It covers the Vivaldi web sites (which include a community forum). So far as I can see, neither the vivaldi.rocks privacy policy nor the vivaldi.com privacy policy make any kind of representation about what the browser software does of itself. That may be enough to put some people off, but it is certainly misreading both these policies to assume that they apply to the use of the browser per se. The relevant documents are: vivaldi.rocks (Client Connect): http://info.vivaldi.rocks/privacy-policy vivaldi.com: https://vivaldi.com/privacy/ Regards to all, Christopher S. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
