Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of…
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488277
tl;dr they're not using AI for obvious reasons
We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.
Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.
A position on AI says next to nothing about one's stance on humanity, right?
wish they would change to gecko though
Even Mozilla doesn’t really want Gecko anymore, that’s why they started Servo.
What makes you say so?
They saw potential in Rust for safety and technical guarantees, and started the Servo project. Eventually, they integrated some things into Gecko, and then concluded the Servo project.
What makes you think they don't want Gecko anymore? What makes you say they started Servo when it's a partially integrated and, more importantly, a concluded project?
Now I only need full ublock origin support on android and it's golden.
You can add the block lists manually via Vivaldi's built in blocker feature
Sadly that doesn't work as good as ublock, especially for adblock blocker blocking.
There are some websites that just don't work with that setup.
You already can have that :) Ironfox (Firefox Librewolf-style android fork) is the easiest option (uBlock origin integrated), but you can also use the normal firefox browser with full extension support.
Firefox (and thus also the forks) is missing a couple features since the rewrite 5 years ago. The biggest one for me is lack of keyboard shortcuts.
Also it becomes painfully slow on some more complex websites and dark reader is not nearly as good as the dark mode in Vivaldi.
Because of that I only use FF on websites that don't work on Vivaldi.
Not open source, but apparently not fully closed source either: https://vivaldi.com/source/.
Opera was bought by a Chinese firm years ago. I'm not saying to use it or not based solely on that; it's just something to keep in mind. That being said, they do have some legitimately useful features, like being able to cap the amount of RAM used with a slider. But yeah, I remember the sale raising some eyebrows.
NGL, Vivaldi is the best version of Chrome.
"Keep browsing, human!"
If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.
So they didn’t really make a stand.
They are selling a product that's just chrome with a fancy skin. The only stance they have is praising google and lying to it's users claiming to be better
“Selling”?
