Users of the Vivaldi browser must upgrade to the latest version and create a Vivaldi account to activate Proton VPN.
This caveat is a shame. I would prefer to just be able to log into a free / paid Proton account directly.
This is just the regular free version of the Proton VPN browser extension. Just about anyone can install it pretty easily.
At the end of day, it’s just another browser enforcing defaults. What if a Vilvadi user prefers Mullvad?
Personally, I am not a fan of Vivaldi. I only use it for one purpose. Increasingly, more and more websites I visit require that I disable AdBlock and/or trackers in order to view their content. I don’t want to do that on any of the browsers I actually, use, so I just so I do it on Vivaldi. I don’t use it for anything else. I almost never open that browser.
@PurpleDime
Why open up websites in a proprietary browser when it takes 3 clicks in uBO to pause for a website?
Proton should have made partnership with Brave, so that I can get rid of this Guardian VPN nonsense, but instead they choose Vivaldi.
I’m assuming that the built-in antifingerprinting features of certain browsers would break a lot of websites that @PurpleDime needs
That’s a good guess, but it’s not my primary reason. @SkewedZeppelin asks a good question, and there is a simpler answer. Most of the time, pausing uBO doesn’t work. The website still says that I’m ad blocking and won’t let me view the page. Hence, why I use Vivaldi where I have no extensions installed, and disabled all the trackers and AdBlock they have on by default. I always do it in Incognito mode. Not so much for privacy, but for security.
Vivaldi tried integrating INISV before but I guess it didn’t work out? Kinda disappointing. As much as I like Proton I’m still rooting for the MPR companies.
Is it just me, or are browsers slowly trying to become an operating system?
laughs in ChromeOS/Emacs
Don’t get me started with Opera GX 
As much as Chromium-based browsers are incredibly secure, I don’t see the point with their marketing sometimes. I get that they’re trying differentiate themselves but the surface-level “fighting against big tech” approach won’t work if they’re trying to poach customers from…each other?
At least go even further on privacy features like Mullvad for example
Is there any additional benefit for Vivaldi users to use the integration instead of having the VPN on already or using the standalone browser add-on? It was unclear to me, when I read the article.
I’m pretty sure browser can already run the more ancient OSes (and even some modern ones) so…
It has already happened.
From what I’ve read, you can remove and uninstall Proton VPN from Vivaldi if you wanted to, for what it’s worth.
True! I’m just not a fan of default..well anything (ex: Google Search on Firefox)