Vivaldi anti-AI stance: CEO says users reject it
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50%-100% user growth puts Vivaldi anti-AI stance in focus as its CEO says users reject browser AI. See why the shift matters

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.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    By only aspects of it they mean the chromium base. What makes vivaldi not the same as chromium is proprietary

    • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 minutes ago

      It was my understanding that the closed source part was limited to their visual aspects, as the functional changes they make have to adhere to the licence of chromium. Unless that’s changed; I haven’t looked into it in a couple of years. It’s where their “skin” applies that they keep it proprietary in other words.