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Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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I use firefox for work, and I am pretty cool with that. The other "approved" browser we have is edge which is fine, and edge actually replaced Chrome entirely when it was approved. I cant remember what caused Chrome to be dropped, but I imagine it was less impressive than a boatload of opt out AI features.

Now I am going to have to propose the canonisation of one of Firefox's forks, which will be difficult because we are sensitive to supply chain issues.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

#12
I was going to switch to Waterfox in light of this news, but a cursory search revealed that it, too, was sold to an advertising company not long ago. While they have published a blog post opposing Mozilla's AI stance, I'm really past the point of giving ad companies any benefit of the doubt. I'm looking into Librewolf now.

The browser situation grows more grim by the day.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

#14

I’m not sure he knows the type of person that actually uses Firefox. > Enzor-DeMeo says it is important that AI features in Firefox are “something people can easily turn off”. It seems like it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. At the very least, ask up front, and have a single switch to make it like it’s not there at all.

If they go in this direction they're going full bore.

I love how with tech, now the only future that anyone can imagine is one that nobody but tech executives want.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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post #14

I’m not sure he knows the type of person that actually uses Firefox. > Enzor-DeMeo says it is important that AI features in Firefox are “something people can easily turn off”. It seems like it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. At the very least, ask up front, and have a single switch to make it like it’s not there at all.

If they go in this direction they're going full bore. I love how with tech, now the only future that anyone can imagine is one that nobody but tech executives want.

We can only hope the market lets their preferences known. Also, that the executives don’t assume it’s a victory because people begrudgingly use the stuff, because there are no other options.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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post #6

I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?

I'm also still a FF user, but I'm eyeing Waterfox [1] and Floorp [2], both FF forks. Waterfox has the stronger privacy focus out of the two, but Floorp doesn't strike me as being any less private that vanilla FF.

1: https://www.waterfox.com/

2: https://floorp.app/

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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It was that coupled with his oddly specific statement of banning ad blockers bringing in $150mm like they modeled it already. Two exact opposite statements you'd want from the CEO of the last bastion of sanity in the internet browser landscape.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they go in this direction they're going full bore. I love how with tech, now the only future that anyone can imagine is one that nobody but tech executives want.

We can only hope the market lets their preferences known. Also, that the executives don’t assume it’s a victory because people begrudgingly use the stuff, because there are no other options.

How? Everyone is doing this crap. There is no alternative.
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