Vivaldi is bringing its privacy-focused browser to businesses, schools, and government organizations. With the launch of Vivaldi Enterprise, the company is officially taking on Firefox and Edge.

Vivaldi Enterprise lets IT teams install, configure, and manage the Vivaldi browser across employee computers, and no license fee is required. The company also advertises that browser data isn’t collected, and there’s no shoehorning of AI assistants. The company announced it in an official post, which also has the download link.

Vivaldi Enterprise announcement.

It’s available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The primary marketing centers around bringing centralized management to the normal Vivaldi browser that people use. Organizations get to remotely configure settings, control the feature set, manage extensions, and more. Administrators don’t have to manually configure every computer either.

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Importantly, employees aren’t going to get a separate, stripped-down edition of Vivaldi. The Vivaldi browser that everyone’s familiar with is exactly what’s being offered, complete with the customization and productivity features. Furthermore, the enterprise version also receives security updates at the same time as the regular browser’s users.

Features screenshot.

Another major selling point is privacy. Vivaldi claims that the employee’s browsing activity isn’t tracked, and there’s no profiling. Vivaldi has also chosen not to bundle AI chatbots into the browsing experience, and no browsing data will be used to train AI models.

Finally, Vivaldi talks about how it’s employee-owned, without any outside investors. As a result, it doesn’t depend on profiling users to generate revenue. It’s advertised as a practical way for organizations to reduce dependence on Big Tech browsers. You can find the official page here.

 
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PiunikaWeb’s Take

Is this just the same Vivaldi browser with the “Enterprise” marketing strapped around it? We need to give them more time to answer that question, but for now, it seems like an extension of the existing browser. Management and administration seem to be the major differences for now, and it’s good to see a privacy-centric browser that isn’t charging a fee for this. It’s also nice that none of the familiar multitasking and productivity features are being sacrificed.

Vivaldi is also continuing its long-standing resistance to putting AI into everything. The enterprise version encompasses that same philosophy. Vivaldi recently doubled down on its AI-free browsing stance alongside DuckDuckGo; you can read about that here.

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