I really can't stand their skewed priorities in contrast to the state of Firefox.
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Listen, I love what Mozilla stands for, or at least what they claim to stand for. But every time they've been asked to choose between their principles and money, they've chosen money. On the one hand, I kind of don't blame them -- after all, if I was a scrappy broke nonprofit singlehandedly maintaining one of the most complex and fast-moving pieces of software mankind has ever devised, I'd probably take money wherever I could get it too -- but on the other, paying lip service to caring about your users' privacy isn't a good look
I'm mostly thinking of making Google the default search engine and not doing much of anything to stop its data-gathering out of the box (although I will give them credit for the Tracking Protection feature in private windows and not taking active steps to prevent people from protecting their privacy, what the hell Google), integrating the famously-invasive Pocket into the browser with no obvious way to remove it, and creating a new paid-exclusive AI help chatbot for web deevelopers that's just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat
Admittedly Mozilla's track record is light years better than any of the other software companies out there, and I won't begrudge them taking Google money in order to survive, but...
Are you really complaining for the default search engine? Wtf just change it. Mozzilla really needs the money to stay afloat, just don't use Google if you don't want to.
Does it? Is this really a selling point? I don't think any layman needs to worry about documents that long and absolutely no one needs to summarize a web page in normal browsing.
Edit: not that I'm against it or anything, just kinda stumped that this is considered important.
If all the competition has a useful feature and FireFox doesn't that will only keep users away from FireFox. The unfortunate reality of today's world is that people have low attention spans and want an AI to spoon feed them whatever garbage they want.
i dont fucking want ANY program "summarizing" for me. if i want to know what it says ill read the damn thing like an adult. this ""ai"" cannot be trusted because its nothing more than a big math equation. its cool tech but has no real intelligence.