@jon In the words of my mother: vivaldi is too messy out of the box.

That, together with the pain one has to go through if one wants to remove all the "big tech" style ads and disable the associated trickery, makes it really hard to recommend.

@kjhank @vosje62 @jon @Vivaldi Closed source apps are, of course, a no-no in the f-droid repo. The F-droid app, however, does have a handy option to add custom repo's.

Definitely would prefer adding a "Vivaldi repository" to the f-droid app over touching the play store.

@futurebird Not to mention all the cases where opposing answers could very well be reasonable.

Would not that even be very likely to happen often? Otherwise, why is a user asking the questions in the first place?

Example: suppose I want to check whether a museum is open on a certain day, and google's "ai overview" helpfully provides an answer. How could this policy of expectations filter out an error without truly checking the source material?

@jon @Vivaldi Make sure to set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine.

And don't forget to disable all the fake intelligence's bovine droppings you may be treated to by the os.

@jimbob Having just cleaned up my mother's brand new samsung tablet, I was extremely impressed that samsung managed to include gemini, galaxy fi, and copilot for me to disable.

There should be a special place in the afterlife for those ceo's, where they are obliged use their own company's products as they come out of the box.