I found it amusing to read some people tagging Vivaldi on Mastodon to "double down on their privacy values" and then found this hidden deep in the menu system. Of all the Chromium based browsers, Vivaldi is my favourite, but it's clear they're not even trying to improve the surveillance advertising situation, they're just opening the back door for their friends.
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According to the technical lead at Mozilla, there's no leakage.
Won't let it load, so there's nothing to send and even if something loads it will be blocked like when you try and visit a site in your blocklist.
Someone posted the snopes. It calls into question a bunch of assumptions you're making.
Won't ever happen. It's their USP.
Chama Linux is the obvious answer
And regarding Vivaldi…
I'm inclined to believe the multiple parties that have said that adblockers protect you from PPA.
Should be both that the ads don't get in and no ad related traffic gets out.
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