TechTakes

It always amuses me when people fall in love with the next “but they’re one of us!” tech companies. You can’t say shit about it without getting destroyed by fanbois, but when they turn out to not be one of us, you’d damn well better keep your “I told you so!” to yourself- because they never let you tell them to begin with.

Unrelated to the article/vid itself, thanks for making both a video, podcast, and an article. I know it is a lot of work, but I really appreciate being able to read it than having to watch a video.

"That’s the words of a guy you need to watch your drink around." chefs kiss.

Used FF for over a decade, switched to Vivaldi about a month ago. It's pretty much as the article says, adblocking not as good as FF+uBlock, but it mostly does the job, including YouTube videos. Note the inbuilt adblocker also works on mobile, tho there's no extension support there. One upside I discovered is that the performance is slightly better at least on my mid-range devices, the web is just built around Chrome-related browsers nowadays unfortunately. It's a bit feature-bloated for my taste with even an inbuilt browser-game (you can hide it from the menus), but honestly that's at least cute and more sincere than AI crap.

Is Vivaldi still good?

Wasn't there some mention of an AI kill switch for Firefox?