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Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux
biofaust@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The real issue is not whether we are going to be force-fed this features or not, but the fact that a foundation with limited resources is going to spend any sizable amount of them developing a solution its users are not interested in.
Waiting for Ladybird at this point.
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
These guys played host to one of the tech world’s most prominent homophobes for decades. In like the browser but the foundation has been trying to fuck everything up since the beginning of the web.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huh? The board ousted him when his political donations came out
markko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
According to your link below he was co-founder of Mozilla in 1998. Based on the other information on that page, he had a very significant role in shaping Mozilla and their tools, so as disagreeable as his personal views may be, it’s not impossible that Firefox might not even exist today were it not for his work there.
Someone else has already pointed out that he was pushed out, but he actually resigned due to public pressure (he was only CEO for 11 days, and one of the board members even left due to him being appointed) before going on to found Brave and becoming the CEO there lol.
If I chose not to use products based on the personal beliefs of the people who worked on them I don’t think I’d have very many options. Mozilla has made heaps of questionable decisions over the years, but the other options are generally much worse.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Obviously, as a Firefox user myself, I’m making similar choices.
But I’ll be dammed if I let an opportunity go to waste to remind people that Brandan Eich is disgusting human trash. He’s responsible for JavaScript, and that’s only least of his sins.
markko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep I got the feeling that we were of similar minds about it but I wanted to provide some balance in case anyone else was weighing up switching to a different browser.
I knew JS was his handiwork, but I wasn’t aware of his significant role at Mozilla or that he is also behind Brave, so thanks for sharing that link.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Out of the loop, who was that?
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Eeesh, and an anti-masker too 😟