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Vivaldi CEO explains his anti-AI stance: most users don’t want AI in the browser (cybernews.com)
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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.

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[–] 6 points 12 hours ago (13 children)

Great, now cover over why you rolled over for manifest v2 shitcanning. YOU WERE MY CHOSEN ONE VIVALDI , I NEED A CHROME BACKUP

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  • [–] 13 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    That's not hard to explain: it would require a ton of resources to maintain a fork with manifest v2, for a small usecase. Vivaldi is a small company compared to say Mozilla.

    Plus the main usecase for v2, ad blockers, is already covered by their built in one.

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago* (9 children)

    Vivaldi is a proprietary Chromium reskin. Use Librewolf.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    Librawolf is simply firefox and I do, but there are things that need chrome. I need both of them for certain things.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

    IMO Librewolf ain’t simply Firefox, and I don’t think folks would say this if they gave Librewolf a chance. A lot of the corporate cruft/AI-adjacent stuff is removed, it’s not just a reskin with adblock. It’s a holistically better browser experience.

    Edit: removed unintentional double negative

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    I'm running Libre, it's my main, but can't use my webflashers, the support in google meet, sound and screen sharing is crap.

    It's not a simple thing that I like chrome. A great deal of crap i need for work demands it.

    And then I end up on Brave because I'm running a bunch of Manifest V2 plugins.

    Also, firefox can't seem to get anti-fingerprinting right. Noone wants to be ready to lie and randomize data but brave.

    I simply want to stop using brave as my second browser, I don't even want it installed, but I'm stuck with it.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    For things that specifically need a Chromium-based browser, like WebUSB, I use ungoogled-chromium.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago

    Basically they don't have the manpower to maintain a whole Chromium fork that still supports manifest v2. Even if they kept it in for a while, every upstream change might break things on their end.

    It sucks and it's the main reason why I recently switched from Vivaldi to Floorp, at least on some of my machines. Vivaldi's ad blocker just isn't comparable to uBlock Origin.

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