Sheri

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hm, haven’t seen this stuff about Mozilla.ai yet. immediate reactions range from “sounds like more dumb shit from higher‐ups like what happened with MDN recently, but the actual devs should still know better as demonstrated there” to “optimistically, maybe they’re just trying to trick people into giving them more funding so their work on Firefox can actually be more sustainable”.
i do still recommend Firefox though, because “AI” stuff isn’t being shoehorned into the actual browser (yet?). for an even safer bet, other privacy‐focused forks of Firefox like Tor browser or Mullvad browser are even less likely to have any BS since they’re so stripped‐down and controlled.

I mostly am not using cohost to post or comment atm but I feel like I may as well reply to this, and...

Well, the most AI-related feature of Vivaldi I can find is that it can bypass Bing's "only works in Microsoft Edge" requirement for its AI service, which... doesn't strictly feel like it's being done out of any interest in AI so much as to keep a browser from being arbitrarily being locked out of a website's features?

Last I recall they also took a hard stance entirely 100% against ""web3"" nonsense so there's that too. It's the browser I've been using for a reason, because frankly I actually don't trust Mozilla the way so many people seem to right now.

Note that Vivaldi is a Chromium-based browser and is, basically a successor to old Opera by the original founder of Opera who, left precisely because of the kind of nonsense Opera is trying to do these days and was entirely dissatisfied with the direction Opera was taking.

i know it’s apple only, but i have seen literally no ai bullshit from safari. apple in general seems like it’s pretty confidently no ai in its products

(i mean it calls it machine learning still when it does use any sort of ai at all, and its current uses of ai are things like using a small local language model to power its new autocorrect and stuff, stuff that’ll definitely raise an eyebrow for people that are very anti-ai, but is generally specific enough and fine enough that nobody will actually really complain about these things. i think its actually kind of interesting to look at the lack of response from a marketing standpoint tbh)