@ayespy Of course Google is a spyware company. That's their whole business model!

Because there is no way to opt out of this, I am on the verge of uninstalling Vivaldi. If I cannot use my browser in a way that I would hope no third parties are collecting my information, then I cannot use my browser in a way I want. Again, the philosophy is a browser is a tool for me to use, not a tool that uses me.

@Morg42 "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."

Or they could just not. That is a lot of information for determining active users -- why isn't this since unique ID enough? Why do you need my CPu architecture, or my screen resolution? You want to know if I'm on desktop or mobile? Just put that in the unique ID upon installation. ID D192909 is a desktop browser, M192910 is a mobile browser.

You want to keep track of version use? Just check how many downloads are made on your server.

It's a waste of money to pay pwik for this data harvesting if they are only collecting this. Which means they are actually collecting more and for additional purposes.

(Ironically, my post for making the quotation syntax results in "Post content was flagged as spam by Akismet.com")

Edit: Reading further into the privacy policy, it says URLs are not collected. But, are domains still collected as dads-beef is reporting?