• bobo@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?

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    There’s a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can’t dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better decisions than Chrome.

    With that said, I didn’t want Pocket, I didn’t want AI, and I’m mildly annoyed that this sort of thing is in the default build. It feels like a windows installer asking you to install 10 additional programs, but the ticked boxes are greyed out. I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.

    Firefox has been around long enough to have been both god tier and trash tier at different points. I don’t think the AI focus is going to go well for Mozilla. I’d like them to focus on browser stuff.

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    3 hours ago

    firefox really shouldnt be our only line of defence for decent browser…

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    6 hours ago

    The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title.

    The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.

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      5 hours ago

      Given the image,i wouldn’t be at all surprised if the article were just AI

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    7 hours ago

    Mozilla are perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves, thank you.

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    2 hours ago

    Not fair! Mozilla can self-sabotage without the help of Microslop, thank you very much!

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        To join the circlejerk? No thanks.

        Every time I come across a post with the biggest “we hate everything” energy, it is one of fuck_AI.

        Even blatant misinformation gets upvoted and shared. As long as it attacks AI.

        Same vibe as the anti-Bieber crowd back in the day.

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        13 hours ago

        This is indeed a disturbing universe.

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        7 hours ago

        Why would I join a fuck AI sub that every day I login is just gonna be like fuck it I fuck AI that just sounds like a complete mental drain no thank you.

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    14 hours ago

    Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?

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    10 hours ago

    Ah yes, I’m sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against

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      9 hours ago

      To be fair, they edited in the Microslop logo and also the Firefox icon, making a crying fox look like a narcissist hugging it’s own image, that is not completely out of blue with their recent shitty decisions