Most of our competitors are all in on AI. We are not.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/10/web_browsers_ai_holdout_vivaldi/
@drakenblackknight @jon @Vivaldi I'm right on the cusp of doing the same. My time with Brave is rapidly nearing an end.
@jon you definitely need to push this hard in promoting #vivaldi. A lot of people are utterly sick of the overwhelming push to AI everywhere. #freedom #flexibility #fuckai
@jon Last year I installed Opera, because I wanted to try out their integrated AI.
What a waste of time, but it did bring me to Vivaldi :)
And you can get plenty of AI in Vivaldi, every website these days seems to have one of those completely useless chatbot assistants :(
@jon thank you for daring being different. And for building the browser your users actually want.
@jon@vivaldi.net finally, a chromium browser that doesnt force ai onto me. Vivaldi already was the browser i recommend for most people but this makes it even better.
@jon Just one of the many reasons why I'm all in with using Vivaldi.
It is a missed opportunity for having a privacy-focused LLM solution, potentially running locally on the device.
For translations, Vivaldi provides a solution that protects privacy, and we users can feel at ease. For AI, people are forced to turn to third-party chatbot services, which may take less care of user data.
Fortunately, there is Duck AI (from the creators of DuckDuckGo), but having GPT features "guaranteed by Vivaldi" would certainly be better (and more trustworthy).
@jon je suis heureux que Le Navigateur Vivaldi utilise pas l'IA Merci
@jon The issue with AI is that this is just another fad pushed from the top down with counterfeit money from the fed. The reason the business cycle is closely related with the election cycle is that the democratic politicians have an incentive to overstimulate the economy to maximize their chances of getting reelected and when they reach their term limit they plug their ears when the ticking time bomb blows up in the next administration. AI is just another example of counterfeit money going into the pockets of privileged corporations with the friends in high places perk. I guarantee you that this AI boom is going to blow up in the face of the next administration and the bubble will burst when the market realizes that it has put too much money into stupid bullshit that people do not actually want at the expense of things that actually matter, like aircraft technicians, engineers, plumbers, truck drivers, carpenters, painters, roofers, manufacturers, food, water, electricity, cars, bicycles and other staples of modern life. The permanent solution is hard gold backed money in a free banking system where the money supply is not up for a vote. End the fed!
I was reading a PDF in a vivaldi tab today, and i love this browser.
I was using the search function, to navigate through the text a bit, and i noticed two things that could be smoother.
One: if i remove the search term, don't send me back to the top of the document.
Two: Multiple search bars!
Now, when i search something, the text gets highlighted in yellow or red.
Next to the search bar is space for extra search 'tabs'! and we could have multiple words highlighted in different colours. No? That would make for a cool trick i think!
Even Mozilla is pushing this AI initiative now... https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-orbit-by-mozilla-a-new-ai-productivity-tool/td-p/71724
@js but you aren't actually building your browser from source, are you? I definitely do that for small open-source projects, but building chromium is a totally different matter. I mean that chromium being open-source is just a PR stunt, like a tobacco company sponsoring a youth football club. Google can force anything on us anyway, they hold the web rules hostage.
@jon
guess I just found my new webbrowser to be used.