"A.I." browsers: the price of admission is too high
Bruce Lawson writing in "A.I." browsers: the price of admission is too high:
So, why would a “browser” want to keep you in its own walled garden?
The answer would seem to be the same reason that Google Search results show more and more generated Knowledge Panels and AI overviews that reduce the number of clicks away from the Search Results: to show you more ads.
Are these products even properly called “browsers”, given that their business model is to keep you in their jealous embrace, and discourage you from browsing the world-wide web?
Been annoyed with Firefox for jumping on the "AI must be everywhere!" bandwagon. I don't want LLMs to be part of my browser. If I want to use them, I will use my browser to navigate to the proper website where I can interact with my preferred LLM.
As a result, I'm giving Vivaldi a go as my main browser. For the good of the web and browser diversity, I would prefer to use something that's not Chromium, but options are limited.
Installed it yesterday and, after a bit of tweaking, so far, so good! Will give it a couple of weeks and see how it sits. Afterwards, I'll probably give Safari a similar test run and see which I prefer.