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Opera Neon is a new browser that puts AI in control of your tabs and browsing activities, but it'll cost $19.90 per month.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can't imagine what I'd even want the "Ai" to do in the browser.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago
[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't opera get bought by some shady company years ago?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yep.

Vivaldi is basically the real Opera now, including some of its devs IIRC.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

It annoys me every time someone puts out an article about Opera and doesn't open the article with that. Stop pretending it's just another browser.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It happened almost a decade ago and part of the sale was the assets which included the brand. Everyone who cared to know already knows about it, again it happened ~9 years ago. https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/18/opera-renegotiates-its-1-2b-sale-down-to-600m-for-browser-privacy-apps-chinese-jv/

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Everyone should care.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They probably don’t know.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

So much for journalism.

[–] Politoed@lemmy.zip 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely, I don’t understand the draw of any of these ai web browsers. Why would anyone want that. What benefit does it even give?

[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago

You'll finally get rid of some of those unneeded $$ every month...

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 11 hours ago

Why would anyone pay you $20/mo when they can sell their personal data to ChatGPT and use it for free?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

I had no idea they were reusing the name. Apparently they had a different prototype under this name in 2017.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/411665/meet-opera-neon-operas-radical-vision-for-the-future-of-web-browsers.html

[–] CAWright 8 points 15 hours ago

That's an easy no.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 7 points 14 hours ago

why would a payday loan company suggest such a thing surprisedpika.gif