Vivaldi is the power-user's dream browser, launched in 2016 by co-founders Jon von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita out of Oslo, Norway. Born from a pure love of the old-school customizable web experience, it packs insane features like tab stacking and hibernation, web panels, built-in notes, quick commands, a full mail client, calendar, feed reader, tracker/ad blocker, and customization so deep you can basically rebuild the entire UI. It's the browser that treats you like an adult who knows what they want, not a data cow to be milked.
Zero rainbow logos, zero Pride Month posts, zero DEI word-salad on their blog or socials, Vivaldi's official channels are a glorious politics-free desert. While the rest of tech is busy turning June into a mandatory corporate kink parade and forcing "inclusion" training on employees, Jon and the team stay laser-focused on fighting actual villains: Google monopoly, creepy tracking, and the slow death of the open web. No virtue-signaling, no agenda-pushing, just raw features and privacy. In a sea of rainbow-washed sellouts, Vivaldi is the quiet Chad that doesn't need to scream "look how tolerant I am" to feel good about itself.
