"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."
Does it? My understanding is that many chromium browsers, while being originally forked from it, are independently developed at this point and aren't tied to Google.
Nah, they're all soft forks, and constantly re-base/update against main chromium build. Hence they often talk about upstream and downstream. Here's the Open Source versions showing it (Opera/Vivaldi/SRWare Iron/Edge/etc are Closed Source); https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/29839
Then you don't want Vivaldi, at all. https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/
"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."
That seems extremely tame if that's the worst thing they do.
It does put paid to them being about Privacy. It's also a google chromium browser and continues to prop up their monopoly.
Does it? My understanding is that many chromium browsers, while being originally forked from it, are independently developed at this point and aren't tied to Google.
Nah, they're all soft forks, and constantly re-base/update against main chromium build. Hence they often talk about upstream and downstream. Here's the Open Source versions showing it (Opera/Vivaldi/SRWare Iron/Edge/etc are Closed Source); https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/29839
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/commit/5bf56b199816e5ddb3bab7d0a495c695c0a073e7
https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/releases