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@Vivaldi and this is why I use Vivaldi instead of Chrome

@Vivaldi so grateful that you do this for all of us thank you

@Vivaldi At least firefox is up-front about and gives you the option to outright disable it all at will.
The only one thing I keep enabled, is the website translation - that's it (doesn't rely on google).

@Vivaldi I actually highly encourage local Ai models that work fully offline for obvious reasons, but one thing is doing things openly and transparently and another is downloading 4GB model without telling user because you're Google and you "know better".

@Vivaldi And that's why I remain a happy Vivaldi user!

@Vivaldi If a tool gives a clear advantage in any given field where people compete, any competitor would be well inspired to start using it regardless of his/her feeling toward said tool, or risk becoming irrelevant very quick.
As for a countries, regardless how you feel about atomic bombs, having it in your arsenal will prevent attacks from predator nations.
Indignation and verbal abuse will stop this. Making AI run independtly on user PC is a better and greener bet in my opinion.

@Vivaldi So say we all!

@Vivaldi not if you uninstall it.

@Vivaldi nice!

@Vivaldi

I do appreciate your stance towards AI, but I'm surprised how many services you support or partner with that use generative or chat AI like Proton, DuckDuckGo, etc.

Have you considered including NoAIDuckDuckGo in your search engine options? Is DDG against that?

@Vivaldi It's true though. I swapped to Linux because of this, instantly felt difference. Hardware was never a problem, software was.

@Vivaldi
How close is Vivaldi to Ungoogled Chromium?

@Vivaldi why do you choose to fight with your foundational technology instead of rolling your own? I refuse to use anything Chromium solely so that there are other engines that may survive, why don't you?

@Vivaldi I went ahead an updated the flags suggested in the news articles, anyway. An extra bit of guard never hurt!

@Vivaldi Thank you.