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The customizable Vivaldi browser adds built-in ProtonVPN

CEO Jon von Tetzchner said the companies are "'uniting two forces in tech that build for people, not investors."

CEO Jon von Tetzchner described the collaboration as part of a broader shift toward "privacy over profiling, sovereignty over surveillance, independence over inertia," noting Vivaldi and Proton's headquarters are in Europe (a region with significantly better privacy regulations than the US). It connects with ProtonVPN's free plan by default, which offers solid speeds but only automatic server locations from ( via The Verge) five randomly selected countries. You can install ProtonVPN's extension for Chrome, Firefox and Chromium-based alternatives like Edge, Brave and Opera, so this is far from the only way to use it in your browser.

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