My best advice is, do not buy one!!!
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{Off-topic a bit}: Details on disabling AI “features” in Google Chrome are quite sketchy, and non-reproducible possibly because AI itself is loath to turn itself off. See Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey … it seems a bit easier or at least comprehensible in Chromium browsers, not sure about Firefox or its’ derivs.
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Probably easier to start with a browser that does not have AI in the first place.
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Just a minute whilst I ask chatgpt if there is one…… Claude says he does not understand the question and does not think its possible
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duck.ai says there are aifree browsers
“Yes, browsers like Vivaldi and Orion do not incorporate AI features. Many other major browsers, however, have started to include some form of AI in their functionalities.”
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After you use the AI-coupled browsers for a while, you are preconditioned to keep using Claude/Leo/etc. The price tag is Microsoft buying 3-mile-island nuke plant for data center use, and Google sucking down a hefty percentage of the hydro output of the Bonneville Dam, thus reducing still further salmon spawning activity. There seems to be always a price for comfort and convenience, n’est-ce pas?
My main gripe is just how hard it seems to be to turn off AI integration, or use way-old versions of browsers in general.
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One has to choose between convenience and conviction.
Conviction is always a harder path, because convenience is by definition the easiest path.
Most Linux users seem to prefer convenience.
But there are a few of us who choose what we believe in.
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