Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi

Zalex108

What I've just seen few hours ago, is that leaving the icon on the toolbar, without previously logging in to the VPN, the "can not Connect" message appears when you restart.

The setting to not auto connect is not reachable.

The only option seems to remove the toolbar icon.

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I guess V Team expects users to click and see what's that New Feature.

This seems better to catch the attention by default in the first & next launch.

Maybe a short explanation and an option to choose whether test it or not when click it, instead of install the extension right away would be good too.

If the option is just in the settings, many people will ask about a Vivaldi VPN, and where to find it.

Nekomajin

@DoctorG
A tooltip alone is not enough.

ThePfromtheO

@TyrionTargaryen I'm exactly the opposite
Why not trying this, what could it break? Anyway, most probably I will be able to repair this, no?

dalinar

@ThePfromtheO it breaks my head that they offer such a great product for free

ThePfromtheO

@dalinar You speak about the VPN, right?
... But if you don't pay, you can only let it auto-connect you, not choose the server on your own. And that is not always the best idea. For example, today, if I click "Connect", it connects me to the server in my country, which is stupid, you understand. If I had upgraded my account, I would have been able to choose what server I wanted. The extension is currently almost unusable for me until it chooses another server based on its speed.
Plus, there are features you can't access without upgrading your plan:

I especially consider the "Split Tunelling" feature an amazing one, and this is also what might convince others to pay for it.

dalinar

@ThePfromtheO yeah, VPN - I get 420mbps on a free VPN (Amsterdam server). it's great. Not sure how fast it could go, that's my connection speed limiting it.

ThePfromtheO

@dalinar Yesterday, I was connected to Amsterdam, but now, as I told you, I have the server in my country. So I can't hide my IP. I would use the VPN app, but you can't use more than one device at the same time. And my mobile needs the VPN more than my PC, in my opinion.

DoctorG

Interesting proton VPN: it connects on Windows to Amsterdam (NL) and on Linux to New York (USA).

TyrionTargaryen

@ThePfromtheO said in Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi:

@TyrionTargaryen I'm exactly the opposite
Why not trying this, what could it break? Anyway, most probably I will be able to repair this, no?

I used to be like that, but now I'm older and have less free time to do stuff. I just want things to stay still for a little while. 🫠

Raoh1990

@ThePfromtheO mine does the same switch but with a grey gradient. I am not using any custom icon set and I am on linux mint and cachy os.

ThePfromtheO

@Raoh1990 For me, with any themes, if the toolbar has a dark color, the icon fills with white colour, while if the toolbar has a light colour, the icon fills with black. I am on Ubuntu 24.10 GNOME.
I don't know what your problem could be. Maybe the theme affects this. Try Vivaldi's default theme and see if this still happens. If the problem doesn't change, you could ask @DoctorG, @nomadic, or anyone else you think would help you. Especially for the last one, @nomadic, I see that people appreciate him, especially regarding his skills in GUI modifications.

Raoh1990

@ThePfromtheO thanks for the reply, at the end this is not a big issue - it would just have been better if filled with green. The important thing is that a lot of people are getting a free and reliable vpn!

ThePfromtheO

@Raoh1990 To be honest, I would like it to remain as it is for me. Green would not fit for all the themes, you know.

Pesala

@Zalex108 said in Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi:

If the option is just in the settings, many people will ask about a Vivaldi VPN, and where to find it.

IMO, the place to inform users of new features is on the Welcome screen, or on the update dialog (it does that already), or on the download blog page (it does that already).

nomadic

@Raoh1990 said in Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi:

when comnected or disconnected, the icon on the toolbar always stays grey. Wouldn't it be a lot better if it was GREEN when connected and RED when disconnected?

You could try adding this custom CSS mod to get colors that reflect the ProtonVPN connection status (instructions for adding a CSS mod here):

/* Give ProtonVPN button different colors to indicate status of the VPN connection */
.protonVPN:not(.offline) svg .inactive {
  opacity: 1 !important;
}
.protonVPN.online svg .online {
  fill: green !important;
  mix-blend-mode: color;
}
.protonVPN.offline svg .offline {
  fill: yellow !important;
}
.protonVPN svg .inactive rect {
  fill: red !important;
}

I set it to green for active, red for inactive, and yellow for offline (guess this is when ProtonVPN is having an outage). You can adjust the colors to anything you want by editing the green, red, and yellow text.

Image showing the 3 states of the button with green first, red second, and yellow third.

I also chose to keep the border and text color the same, so the button doesn't get lost on various theme colors. Didn't do that for the yellow offline, but figured it wouldn't be a common occurrence, so didn't bother with it.

CWiggum

I am a Proton unlimited user for years now and this news just made me to test Vivaldi Browser and im glad you two cooperate. So now i have a new browser and when Proton trusts you, i do too.
I hope we see many more things coming!

stardepp

@nomadic Thank you for this very useful mod.

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Raoh1990

@nomadic thank you very much, mate! It worked like a charm!

CummingCowGirl

@dalinar said in Privacy Without Compromise: Proton VPN is Now Built Into Vivaldi:

@ThePfromtheO yeah, VPN - I get 420mbps on a free VPN (Amsterdam server). it's great. Not sure how fast it could go, that's my connection speed limiting it.

I got over 650 the first time I tested it and my max now according to Xfinity is 1300. I can live with anything over 400. I only took the gig service cause of the promo at the time gave me the best price without going too low in speed.

Jamesdaan55

@3dvs you are right