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Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

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Post by The_President »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #492

I think Firefox is an excellent browser. Their problem is simply that they have too much revenue for too many years. They need a fraction of that. If I were the ceo, I would drastically cut back operations. Scale down the org to 10% of its current strength, keep shipping a solid and boring browser, accept donations that directly support development of the browser. No fads, no ai, just a high performance, bug free, st…

Revenue is good for the company - and they'll want as much as possible in order to support their obligations to the business plan, but unfortunately layoffs were still part of that plan these past few years. Mozilla's CEO pay:

2018: $2.46 million

2020: $2.97 million

2021: $5.59 million

2022: $6.90 million

2023: $6.26 million

I block requests to Mozilla infrastructure, not by mistake.

Re: Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

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Post by vlowther »

BoredPositron wrote: post #22

The problem with the "Trust me bro." stuff is that it only works if you are trusted and after the last decade Mozilla is anything but.

None of the big browsers can be trusted at this point. Firefox is at best the least worst out of the big cross platform browsers.

Re: Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

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Post by ethbr1 »

TRiG_Ireland wrote: post #513
PurpleRamen wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you read down in the thread, there's a good discussion about how this simply isn't true about Mozilla. Yeah, I'm not searching 500 posts for this.. > Of the fads Christophe Henry mentioned top of thread Who is Christophe Henry? Is this some namecalling? > Mozilla flat out didn't invest any resources in some of them, That doesn't make it better, being somewhat selective is also normal. Most companies don't have t…

The link goes to a conversation on Mastodon.social, and one of the first commenters is called Christophe Henry.

You don't want to say RTFA, but sometimes it's really hard to avoid...

Re: Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

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Post by anticensor »

ivanmontillam wrote: post #410
Krssst wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't do that for any feature, no reason they'd do it for AI.

New CEO could change that.

Firefox is open source, people can simply fork an unbranded build out of it.
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