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Hey, here's Gaëlle Medeiros-Logeay, Data Protection Officer at Vivaldi.

The data we collect is not personally identifiable, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible. :)

We're not in the business of collecting data, and we do not sell them to advertisers like others do. The collected data helps us to understand where most of our users come from.

Our stats show us which country our users are located in and nothing more. We don't do data profiling. We just look at trends.

We don't see any browsing history, it's all stored locally so that only you can see your own browsing history. If you use Sync, then the data is encrypted.

If you want to read more about our privacy, this article wrote about us at length on this topic: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/30/vivaldi-browser-privacy/

Hope this clarifies things for you. :)


> The data we collect is not personally identifiable, and we try to keep it as minimal as possible. :)

Hey Gaëlle!

Huh? Unique ID + /24 + screen resolution is the opposite of "not personally identifiable". You may not use it that way yet, but that's only because no one applied enough incentive or force yet.


There aren't all that many Vivaldi users out there so the /24 is probably already enough to uniquely identify the user in many cases.


The collected data helps us to understand where most of our users come from.

You can simply log the downloads. I have no problem with that.

Can we please stop with the whole phoning-home trend? It's scary that such things have even become acceptable.


Muchas gracias :)


Thanks Rafael for sharing this great use case! :)


Sorry for the slow performance, we're constantly working on improving it. ;)


Thanks for your feedback, sync is in progress ;)


Thanks for your positive feedback. Regarding Open Source Jon shared some insights here: https://vivaldi.net/en-US/userblogs/entry/a-few-words-about-...


Cool. Any idea it will be released? :)


Do you use it yourself? If so what are your favorite features and where do you see room for improvement?


Yes we did use it for a few months. We're actually thinking going back to it but want to check first all the other possibilities.


Joomla would also slow down our website and I never like the way it's structured. I enjoy working with more straightforward CMS such as Drupal, Typo3 or WordPress. We encountered this list of cloudbased CMS: http://www.cmscritic.com/dir/cloud/

Has anyone experience with them? Squarespace is out of question as they don't allow to host an app on an external subdomain.


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