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AI is not your friend

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Re: AI is not your friend

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Same with your comment? Just don't up-vote or comment in the future?

My comment isn't surrounded with multiple calls to action to pay me money in exchange for more of my writing. “Flippantly dismissive” is exactly the level of criticism it deserves, given the amount of cheer-leading inanity on display.

To some potentially large extent I agree with what you wrote.

Though, this guideline is perhaps violated:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

The guidelines would dissuade us from making 'flippantly dismissive' comments - even if we feel they are merited.

Re: AI is not your friend

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No, it is not. For those who want to avoid Google altogether, switching to Chromium does not solve those issues. From https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/09/open_source_unbranded... "there are 50 or so Google services that have been integrated in the Chromium code base." "The services are free but have commercial value by providing data that can be used to inform advertising and marketing algorithms, or in some cases…

> switching to Chromium does not solve those issues. But it allows them to be solved. Then if you don't like Google services, you can remove them, as some have done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium

Which I have already pointed out.

Re: AI is not your friend

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> switching to Chromium does not solve those issues. But it allows them to be solved. Then if you don't like Google services, you can remove them, as some have done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium

Which I have already pointed out.

But then I'm not sure what your objection is.

Re: AI is not your friend

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Which I have already pointed out.

But then I'm not sure what your objection is.

You wrote "The most popular web browsers are open source."

That is not true. I replied: "The most popular web browsers use open source, but none of Chrome, Edge, or Safari are open source web browsers."

Chromium is not one of the popular web browsers.

If it is, tell me how many people use it compared to Chrome.

I also asked "Is ungoogled Chromium the same codebase as Chrome? What about Vanadium? Brave? Edge? Opera?"

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