Jon S. von TetzchnerAug 28, 2025

The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/

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Show threadCubeOfCheese
@jon firefox adding a bunch of AI features and vivaldi choosing not to has me really eyeing vivaldi for my students. Installed it on one of the computers today actually.
The main thing really holding me back is ublock origin.
Aug 28, 2025 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Aug 29, 2025
@cubeofcheese @jon I have never used Ublock, but Vivaldi does a good job of blocking ads if you want that, and I add Privacy Badger on top as well as a bunch of manual cookie blocks. I personally donʼt block ads, but I do block trackers, which, interestingly, has the effect of blocking ads on virtually all websites (apart from ours!).
Show threadAtropineAug 29, 2025

@cubeofcheese
"Firefox adding a bunch of AI features and vivaldi choosing not to has me really eyeing vivaldi for my students"

You can't compare Firefox with a Chromium fork and in the same time, exclude Chrome
Firefox is the same as Chrome or Safari and (sadly) they are doing like them (AI features)
If you want to be honest intellectually, you have to compare Vivaldi to a FF fork, like Librewolf for example

Show threadCubeOfCheeseAug 29, 2025
@Atropine well you're in luck, because I literally just downloaded librewolf to test it out against firefox and vivaldi