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.
For anyone saying it’s Chromium based as a reason to not use it: how is Mozilla any better at this point? Can you point to anything notable and positive that Mozilla has done in the past idk 10 years or so? They won’t even include adblocking with their browser our of fear they lose Google’s support.
Maintaining a viable cross platform 3rd party browser with proper extensions support including Ublock and strict tracking controls?
None of that is unique to Firefox though. Vivaldi has all those features too and adblock don’t even require an extension its just built in, Mozilla doesn’t even include adblocking by default.
HIRE THIS MAN
Yeah, loved Vivaldi until it started randomly corrupting my profiles after not starting up correctly. Now I’m back on Firefox -_-
remember when they let Homer design a car?
same shit happens when users get to design software.
based af. I’m installing Vivaldi right now, holy shit.
It’s Chromium based.
I’m uninstalling it right now!
I kinda find this idea cool like theres other browsers like Firefox that makes AI optional to choose
I use AI on a daily basis and I don’t want AI in my browser. The desire to integrate AI into everything is not smart.
They’re right. Vivaldi is based
…on chromium
the superior browser engine sorry not sorry (i’ve had way too much trouble with everything gecko-based even though i want to support it, the technical issues make it nearly impossible)
Bro looked at steams pro consumer behavior and thought “hmm, I wonder if I could do that too?”
also, yall stop fighting about web browsers because all web browsers capable of the bloated standards are de facto corporate controlled
I just vibe code my own browser, with blackjack and hookers.
I Zen Browser and Vivaldi. Vivaldi is great.
AI is just a more destructive and straight recession triggering NFT.
What do they have to do with each other?
In a mechanical sense not a whole lot, but in both the reason why they are being focused on and what it does to the cost of computer parts they are quite similar. NFTs, Metaverse, and AI have all gotten the focus they have because the tech industry has been chasing the high of the internet and later smart phone booms, they all want the next big thing but they are all ignorant to fact that the only reason said booms worked was because of the broad utility which AI and NFTs have little of.
NFT tried to be an alternative to currency, But it almost endangered the economy and general affordability guarantees the same way AI used up water sources and federally protected forests
To be clear NFTs tried to be a replacement to traditional proof of asset ownership like paper deeds and such. Then a bunch of people used that to create contracts for ownership of links to assets and sold that to speculative investors, aka morons, and thus another actually neat technology with a good niche dies.
Similar to the blockchain being an amazing technology that could instantly verify transactions with complete accuracy; and instead got used for alternative currencies.
Cryptocurrencies (blockchain-backed contract ownership of assigned mathematical conclusions) tried to be currency, NFTs in popular culture tried to be art (as in how art is actually bought and sold in the real world for money laundering.)
AI (GAN including LLMs), like blockchain and NFTs, has its extremely specific narrow use case for society - one that is currently overblown and is being used incorrectly in all parts of society, and wasting the resources used and tarnishing the technology at the same time.
Crypto is working out great for criminals and NK.
Remind me in a year (2027-11-13): Vivaldi has gone bankrupt.
Ironically we don’t have bots here so you’re asking a human to just remember.
This guy is my new hero.
