Worth it Stage 1
Vivaldi is owned by its employees and has no outside investors. It earns from search and bookmark partnerships rather than tracking or profiling users, and its chief executive has publicly ruled out generative AI in the browser (2025). Nothing keeps you there: bookmarks and settings export cleanly. Stage 1.
- Since
- 2016
- Category
- Browser
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- vivaldi.com
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
100% kept
“Vivaldi web browser lets you do things your way by adapting to you and not the other way around”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 1 of 3
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- A1 Paid for without surveillance
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy