Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

  But, maybe “it will be different this time”, I guess.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :

  Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

  Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.

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  • compostgoblin@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.

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  • Bazimon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look into Waterfox instead.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).

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  • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

      My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And it will loose Google’s deal money.

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• peterg75@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this!

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