I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
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@Gargron @Vivaldi I did the same. For a few weeks. Then I met Zen Browser.
Less is more.
@Gargron That's a reasonable switch, made one such myselfnot long ago. But got really tired of the Opera era bloat, so I'm now on Zen. I recommend making acquaintance with Zen team. They have the strong policy against useless AI and the UI is so less cluttered.
Welcome to the family!
@Gargron What do people think of DuckDuckGo?
@Gargron Have you tried out @zenbrowser?
@Gargron Vivaldi uses Chromium, and therefore Manifest V3
https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/
which breaks uBlock origin. Only Lite will work.
@Gargron @Vivaldi The question is how much longer browsers dependent on Chromium upstream will still be able to support uBlock Origin against Google's will.
The better choice would have been a Firefox-based browser like Waterfox, which takes Firefox and strips it of all the annoying telemetry and AI nonsense
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/?v=1
@Gargron
If memory serves me well, my first browser was Netscape - guess my age 😉
Briefly used Mozilla and Opera but Firefox has been my dominant browser after Netscape ever since.
I'm not liking certain decisions within the Mozilla group, including the AI hype, but so far I'm sticking to it.
