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.

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    18 hours ago

    I really hope Vivaldi stays good. It’s basically the only browser I’m considering usable. I’ll make do with something else in a pinch, but surfing the web without Vivaldi is like not having a hand.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      I’m using it for stuff that doesn’t work without Chromium (like a translation tool that doesn’t break SPA forms) but yeah not being able to use my custom adblockers concerns me.

      • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        Same. If it weren’t a Chromium browser I’d explore it more, it seems to have a lot of neat options.

    • Nothing_Is_Real@lemmy.zipEnglish
      63·
      17 hours ago

      Waterfox is better, it’s open source, not based on chromium and has a split DNS resolution path through their own servers and cloudlfare. A few tweaks in about:config and it’s by far the best option out there.

        • Nothing_Is_Real@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          There are several, depending on your level of paranoia, you may want to only change a few or go deep into the rabbit hole. Basically when you install waterfox, you should first check the regular settings, for example, strict enhanced traffic protection in the privacy and security tab is a good start, there are more in other tabs that you can navigate quite easily and are pretty straightforward.

          In about:config, one of the most important is geo.enabled, this one should definitely be set to false, it’s even recommended on the arch Linux wiki. You can also set both privacy.fingerprintingProtection and privacy.resistFingerprinting to true (the second one will, among other things, set your local clock static at UTC 0, so the payload you send out will always show UTC timezone, wherever you are). However, keep in mind that the second one will also break some websites that you’ll visit as well as slowing down your browsing experience a bit.

          In the end it’s always a trade off between privacy and convenience, so you can explore and see the config that works best for your particular case.