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Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

a quote from Enthony Enzor-Demeo, the current CEO of Firefox.

I like how you treat any rumors you don’t like as propaganda, implying ill intent, as well as call people morons for not trusting yet another corpo.

I personally use firefox for now, because i’m too lazy to set up synchronization between devices myself in an opensource browser.

The fact that they’re slightly better than their competitors is not a reason to fanboy over them and put a blind eye over their slow but steady shift towards enshittification.

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure, blind loyalty is bad, but your characterization of Mozilla is either ignorant or disingenuous. From Wikipedia:

The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to own the Mozilla trademarks and other intellectual property and will license them to the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation will also continue to govern the source code repository and control who is allowed to check in.

This doesn’t mean that enshittification can’t happen, but Mozilla Corporation clearly has different pressures than most corporations.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Again, propaganda against Firefox with no basis.
What is your claim? That because it uses AI, it inherently bad?
The AI functions implemented by Firefox are generally run locally.

You show NOTHING, and yet you act like you made a point???

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- CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  lmao. You fail to beat the fanboy allegations with this comment. At this point you literally look like the guy from the meme in my eyes.
  
  and again with the misuse of the word “propaganda”, this time topped off with the most basic demagogic manipulation i’ve seen in a while, comparing me to corpos, trying to… What exactly? Is the last paragraph there to make me feel bad? Because it provides no logical counter-argument to what i said. Sorry, but i’m too autistic to be ragebaited.
  
  You’re the one, making claims without supporting them with any proof.
  
  My claim is that firefox gets worse by adding the features nobody asked for, spending time and money for their development, purely out of FOMO of the AI hypetrain, while struggling to implement actually relevant modern technologies such as WebGPU. AI can be a useful instrument, but if i ever want to use it, i’d use specialized tools for that, and look for them at specialized places.
  
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  - Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    My claim is that firefox gets worse by adding the features nobody asked for
    
    Most of those new features are absolutely amazing, like the instant translation of almost any page,
    Creating tags for images that don’t have them for blind people, is an amazing feature for blind people.
    If you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. You don’t get to dictate that others shouldn’t have them on false accusations.
    Some of us like a feature-full high quality browser, that respect our privacy.
    
    purely out of FOMO of the AI hypetrain
    
    OK and which functions are that?
    You’re just on the AI hate train and think that’s the default correct position.
    Well guess again, because Mozilla is actually using it for things that are both useful and noninvasive.
    So why don’t you piss off and go use a terminal browser instead if that’s what you want.
    Alternatively there are a lot of decent open source browsers that don’t have the advanced features of Firefox you can use.
    
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  - Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    the misuse of the word “propaganda”,
    
    No I use the word propaganda because the accusations are based on falsehoods.
    
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ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Whether you like it or not, some people want AI features and Firefox isn’t in a position to snub their users. At least they give you a choice of enabling/disabling that functionality

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- CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Pardon, but some people want to eat shit and watch others do it. Some people still use facebook. I don’t judge them. But won’t be happy if they showed up and told me that i must do it as well.
  
  And those features being what exactly? A small chat window drop-out so your lazy ass won’t need to open an ai chat in a tab? This is absurd.
  
  At least they give you a choice of enabling/disabling that functionality
  
  lmao. That’s how we got Windows as enshittified as it is now.
  
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