TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.
If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.
Vivaldi for the win?
No AI crap at all
No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it’s also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.
Closed source Chromium sounds like fun.
Where did you get that?
A quick search lands me on this page https://vivaldi.com/source/
Edit: also this https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/
The UI is proprietary.
Yes, exactly.