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

• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it will loose Google’s deal money.

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• vivendi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Bazimon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look into Waterfox instead.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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