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For any of you who don't want ProtonVPN in Vivaldi the good news is that the functionality is provided by an extension. So the ProtonVPN feature can either be disabled or removed completely.
"Tools" -> "Extensions" and there you will find ProtonVPN. Remove or disable as you wish and carry on as before.
There may be many reasons why you would want to remove it, for example if you already have a VPN via an application on your device that allows all browsers and apps to make use of the VPN.
I generally feel you are going to offer bundled features in say a browser it is much better to have them as opt-in than opt-out.
In this case though, after seeing the effect of the recently introduced UK Internet Content Blocker, blocking a particular website that an elderly relative uses, (without good reason as far as I could see) I can see a reason to make this particular feature an opt out.
Installing the ProtonVPN app on a Linux computer is somewhat more involved than logging into ProtonVPN in your browser. So maybe Vivaldi's ProtonVPN extension is something my elderly relative can learn to use.
@syklist it is opt in. Firstly, the extension is not pre installed. It gets installed if you left (primary) click on that button. You can not click on the button and there is no extension. Or if you don't like the button just right click on that VPN button and remove. You need to click the button AND start the login process (with either a Vivaldi or Proton account) before you are not using their service. Isn't that opt in enough for you? You cannot use it without initiating login.
P.S. You only need to remove the extension itself if you previously clicked on the button and installed it.
Thanks for clarifying that. There was no obvious installation process so I assumed it was pre-installed. I do not recall being asked to install anything, so I will check how it works on another instance of Vivaldi.
Kudos for having done this via an extension as opposed to what Mozilla did with Firefox when they incorporated Pocket into Firefox in a "non-removable" way.