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

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 https://vivaldi.com/bk/aliexpresscom-us -> http://ww2.siteplug.com/fly?${tracking http://ww2.siteplug.com/fly?${tracking params} -> https://best.aliexpress.com/?${more https://best.aliexpress.com/?${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 http://siteplug.com [1]: http://siteplug.com/for-partners http://siteplug.com/for-partners