On 09/04/16 01:51, CPK Smithies wrote:
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.
Thanks for pointing that it -- it does make more sense.
I've now tried the Vivaldi browser, and it seems pretty good. Time will tell
if it's significantly different from Chromium.
Cheers,
Chris
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