Just found my Vivaldi update contained a little more than just bugfixes… it now has Proton VPN built in.
It’s actually part of the browser, not an extension, so I’m in two minds whether I like that… or not.
You need either a Vivaldi account or a Proton account, so it’s not completely anonymous, but it’s a start.
The free-tier of Proton VPN also appears to be bandwidth limited and your exit point is randomised, so… yeah, it’s ok…
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Proton VPN built in
Seems like it’s still an extension and can be removed; but personally I’d rather not have random extensions installed with browser updates…
Regardless if you like Proton or not, having it bundled by default isn’t good. It should be opt-in.
i do not trust proton to not share data with the us government considering how chummy the ceo is with trump and the republican party.
proton is just another big tech cryptofash broligarchy company and its shameful vivaldi is getting in bed with them
Y’all are blowing this way the fuck out of proportion.
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Proton AG is not based in the US, and they’ve already shown that they have no access to any encrypted data multiple times.
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Proton AG is privately owned by the Proton Foundation, not Andy Yen. Andy is only 1 out of 5 people on that board. He does not have full control, and has only expressed his opinion on a single person that Trump picked. That’s it. Was it distasteful? Yes. Does it mean that Andy is a trumper and hellbent on fucking over everyone else? Absolutely not.
FFS, get your facts straight.
And none of that relates to the VPN which, under Swiss law, is not obligated to retain any logs whatsoever.
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I’d use vivaldi if they used Firefox engine
I’d use Firefox if they had Vivaldi feature parity
What this cat said.
Definitely not a good thing. I use Proton VPN, but only because I paid for a license before I realized the CEO is a scumbag. A lot of people are moving away from Proton’s platform, so a browser choosing to bundle it in is just privacy-violating bloatware for everyone except for a subset of users who are also still using Proton, and also for some reason don’t just have the standalone app installed.
I’m curious as to why you think the CEO is a scumbag? This article does a good job of clearing up the outrage I had seen towards the CEO.
