Post B0FQ95Blr5d53AFHkG by Niall@mastodon.nz
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(DIR) Post #B0FQ93f7WzuyJbxhDM by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-14T20:02:43Z
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People who are fucked off with Firefox's AI crap might like to try the Vivaldi browser. It does a solid job of blocking ads and tracking and has some nice features, with no LLM shenanigans. They run a Mastodon instance too.https://vivaldi.com/@Vivaldi
(DIR) Post #B0FQ95Blr5d53AFHkG by Niall@mastodon.nz
2025-11-14T20:18:25Z
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@essjax @Vivaldi what's the downside? I'm sure people were yelling at Vivaldi for being <<something bad>> a while ago. It wouldn't be life if that weren't the case but I can't remember whether it was something serious or trivial.
(DIR) Post #B0FQ95ygvClFUt8Lzs by leighelse@mastodon.nz
2025-11-14T20:29:40Z
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@Niall @essjax @Vivaldi The only downside for me is philosophical.Vivaldi seems currently to be the best of the Webkit browsers, but if I want real browser choice in the future I need Firefox to survive, at least until Ladybird comes on line.
(DIR) Post #B0FQ96aGfUopNQiMZE by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-14T20:46:27Z
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@leighelse @Niall @essjax @Vivaldi being proprietary is Vivaldi's showstopper bug.
(DIR) Post #B0FYPmkwRM2eREAiCu by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-14T22:19:10Z
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@monica @leighelse @Niall @essjax @Vivaldi good on them for publishing their rationalisation. I'm not even slightly compelled by it, though, I'm afraid.
(DIR) Post #B0FchexeYmiLI8tcZc by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-14T23:07:17Z
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@monica @leighelse @Niall @essjax @Vivaldi for sure. I'm an unapologetic libre near-absolutist (my rationale: https://davelane.nz/proprietary) and am still quite happy with FireFox, having been able to easily avoid the AI stuff (I'm not a fan of FF going down that path), and I use unGoogled Chromium & Brave to access that family of browsers, so Vivaldi's not solving a problem I have.
(DIR) Post #B0Fpa9cpxxFxTyuXvE by leighelse@mastodon.nz
2025-11-14T20:27:35Z
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@essjax @Vivaldi Vivaldi works well, but so does Firefox. I turned off all the AI in about:config to be sure it stays that way.
(DIR) Post #B0FpaAmneOot5Aa15c by leighelse@mastodon.nz
2025-11-15T01:28:29Z
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An updated list of Firefox settings to change in about:config to rid your Firefox of any AI activity:user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false); user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled", false);user_pref("pdfjs.enableAltTextModelDownload", false); user_pref("pdfjs.enableGuessAltText", false);
(DIR) Post #B0FrnDsxddW6MroPs8 by Corax42@mastodon.social
2025-11-15T01:56:01Z
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@lightweight @monica @leighelse @Niall @essjax @Vivaldi If anything, that's convinced me not to touch their browser."95% of our product is taken from the Chromium open source project, but oh we cannot open our UI code, somebody else would just take it and make a competing product"That is literally the exact effing thing that they've been doing! But they won't give others the same opportunity that Chromium has given them. LOL and then they claim that obfuscation is done to improve performance
(DIR) Post #B0FzzYUvcw8vP7xkZM by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-14T20:26:30Z
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@Niall @Vivaldi I guess it's Chromium-based and not fully open source, which would put some off. I'm not fundamentally religious about that stuff 🤔
(DIR) Post #B0FzzZlcuL5tLCmbEe by Stomata@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15T03:28:16Z
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@essjax @Niall @Vivaldi vivaldi talks home a lot, i mean a lot. Taken from their privacy policy "When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your device. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. "Thats not a good move.
(DIR) Post #B0GWp48qvrVKqeF7OC by Sar@masto.ai
2025-11-15T09:36:04Z
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@Stomata @essjax @Niall @Vivaldi Doesn't Firefox do the same sort of thing?
(DIR) Post #B0GXMg2B4QRPvR9DJg by Stomata@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15T09:42:13Z
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@Sar @essjax @Niall @Vivaldi you should not use 'regular' firefox. @librewolf does a great job removing shit from firefox
(DIR) Post #B0GgJqHtOIm0RdDmVM by Sar@masto.ai
2025-11-15T11:22:29Z
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@Stomata @essjax @Niall @Vivaldi @librewolf Except for one small issue - no android version. I sync bookmarks etc between desktop and mobile. No mobile version is a dealbreaker for me.
(DIR) Post #B0GifvxBCoJIIRC8mm by Stomata@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15T11:49:00Z
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@Sar @essjax @Niall there is somthing called Ironfox that i use myself. Its also recommend my librewolf team https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox they have made a lot of improvement to Firefox
(DIR) Post #B0HCXxSEjr9tG9pnOq by Sar@masto.ai
2025-11-15T17:23:40Z
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@Stomata Do the two browsers sync with one another?
(DIR) Post #B0HEf9LP8Am24RCC24 by Stomata@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15T17:47:17Z
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@Sar yes all firefox based browser sync
(DIR) Post #B0HFh4ViAolPc1Usng by Sar@masto.ai
2025-11-15T17:58:56Z
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@Stomata Ahh, for some reason I didn't think they'd use the Mozilla sync 😂Worth a go then, so I've got Ironfox installed on my phone now, so we'll see how it goes, thanks! 😄
(DIR) Post #B0HHASrEpWcZTZ94zY by Stomata@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-15T18:15:28Z
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@Sar ironfox disables webgl and some other stuff or you may look into ironfox section in settings and may enable some overrides if necessary 🙂