Security News > 2020 > April > How to use the new Vivaldi tracking feature

With the release of version 3, Vivaldi now comes with a new tracking system that prevents anyone from tracking you as you navigate the web.

The most logical approach is to enable tracking and then disable it on a site-by-site basis, when you find a site that doesn't function properly with tracking disabled.

"Rather than being just a blocklist, DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar is actually a data set that can be used to compile powerful blocklists, such as that used in this new Vivaldi release, as well as form a foundation for research of trackers to discover new techniques and promote broader understanding. The data set is continually updated by crawling top websites looking for various factors such as usage of resources in a third-party context, cookie-setting behavior, usage of browser APIs, and the likelihood of those APIs being used to identify users. We've made the Tracker Radar data set and the code that generates it openly available, and we're delighted Vivaldi is using this technology to provide effective tracker protection for its users."

You can select from the same options that you'll find in the on-the-fly feature: No Blocking, Block Tracking, Block Tracking and Ad. And that's all there is to using the new Tracking feature in Vivaldi 3.

It's as reliable as any other similar feature in competing browsers, while making it considerably easier to manage the Tracking functionality on the fly.

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