[jhoh]

Vivaldi ships with a load of preselected bookmarks. Mainly big news sites and some online stores. It seems like there is some affiliate marketing going on there. Some of these bookmarks link to a vivaldi.com page that redirects you to a siteplug.com page which again redirects you to the actual page.

Example bookmark: AliExpress -> https://vivaldi.com/bk/aliexpresscom-us -> http://ww2.siteplug.com/fly?${tracking params} -> https://best.aliexpress.com/?${more tracking params}

Siteplug seems to be the service with they use to monetize the traffic. Notice that the redirect link doesn't offer a https version. Neither does their website [0] that also just shows me a dead bird on most pages [1].

[0]: http://siteplug.com [1]: http://siteplug.com/for-partners