Vivaldi anti-AI stance: CEO says users reject it
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50%-100% user growth puts Vivaldi anti-AI stance in focus as its CEO says users reject browser AI. See why the shift matters

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.

  • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    It’s a purity race to oblivion : people who know and care use Firefox. They switched away from the default and by that very action they are in the tiny minority who actually has a grasp at problems and dare try to do something about. They are vocal about it, put efforts into the process so they in general want “more” and “better” according to their own criteria. It doesn’t stop there though, once they have moved away for privacy or open source or sovereignty or whatever else, they want the other criteria and it won’t stop.

    It is recursive though, people who care a lot about some criteria move away from Firefox, the now “mainstream” within that community, then use e.g. Waterfox or LibreWolf. You can see this in any community which moves away from the mainstream choice really. There is a vocal minority within the minority and they do have genuine reasons and concern.

    Once you use LibreWolf I bet there are other forks, etc, etc.

    For those people what Firefox is doing is actually very bad because it goes back to what they wanted to move away from.

    • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I will add, that enshittification is a big part of the process. Money drives companies do things users do not like, and the only power we hold against that, is to walk away. If we do not use that power, things will only get worse, or end up in a monopoly situation, where you lose most of that power, and all of it, if it is something, you must use.
      What often happens is, that the wave kind of starts as a small movement away, and when the enshittification goes too far (and competition has not been killed successfully yet), it gets bigger and bigger. And that wave brings money, which either starts or hastens the enshittification process of the product people moved to. And the cycle repeats.