Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think I actually nailed that response, the only way you could see it as lacking is if you were trying to forcefully inject preconceived like “local joint good, door dash bad” into a situation where the “local joint” is a corporate entity shilling AI and “door dash” as an open source community project.

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  • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You said we should give our money to the privacy respecting waterfox and librewolf. This is laudable but waterfox is a build of old firefox and librewolf is a build of new firefox. Much like doordash is only a way to get burgers from a grill to your door they are not themselves an alternative to $burger-joint librewolf is only a way to get what ls basically Firefox to your machine without the extra crap you don’t want.

    Even if you support librewolf you won’t have a viable alternative browser because they are functionally incapable of making one and there is no reason to believe making one is even their mission. You aren’t actually replacing firefox just consuming it in a downstream configuration. Furthermore if they die librewolf and waterfox will absolutely cease to be useful because again they are incapable of delivering a browser the same way supporting door dash alone will leave you without anyone to cook your food.

    $burger-joint should have thought about that before making Door Dash the only usable ordering method, cramming AI into their lobby.

    This is basically bullcrap. There is at this point nothing you even need disable. At such time as it exits it will be probably consist of what a setting in config and a toolbar button to remove so hard. Wine harder.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Either the privacy browsers will use the money to develop the open source GECKO engine thenselves or they will be the sole source of users and therefor both directly and indirectly funding to Firefox: they will have negotiating power.

      Currently their biggest contributors are Google and likely some AI tech bros, so that’s who they’re going to listen to.

      Empowering Librewolf and Waterfox is like the Union owning Franchises, if we’re still sticking to your absolutely ridiculous analogy.

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      They can and will continue to make browsers if we fund them. The GECKO engine was open sourced.

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      • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Waterfox is a huge POS that nobody should use. Librewolf isn’t even a fork its just a build of firefox with things disabled.

        Neither has expressed even the idea of developing a browser engine outside of your fantasies. This is literally an idea that doesn’t exist outside of your own head.

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