Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

• comador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  that wasn’t the question lol.

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  • toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    true, but thats a no-go for me. Who knows what that browser secretly does or what they could put in, well never know for sure…

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    • comador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I get the resentment for closed source and the love for FOSS, but just because it’s closed doesn’t mean it’s bad.

      I’ve been a Slackware user since 1994 and if you’ve ever used sg3_utils or lsscsi, you’ve used my code lol.

      I just cannot commit to fanboing like that as there’s reasons even today not to gnu everything. Vivaldi has a descent reason too vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…

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      • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Vivaldi’s core reason can be summarised as

        when it comes to large projects that have been around for ages or are household names, people might not even notice the fork. But with Vivaldi’s relatively smaller footprint, we could be easier to overshadow, making our brand more vulnerable.

        They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical. Sorry but that’s absurd. If imagined how it looks from outside their firm, they might wake up. Instead, they’ll probably putter along for a while, then get bought or fail or change direction or something, and their browser will be lost like the Presto Opera before them.

        None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.

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