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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 101 points 1 year ago (14 children)

TBH despite I don't like this specific idea, nor use Firefox directly, I do like the usage of local inference vs sending your data to thirdparty to do AI.

They just needed to do it OPT IN, not OPT OUT.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    It is though.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    then why the fuck is this newsworthy? ugh. Why is there such a huge hateboner for firefox lately?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Money for their executives

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the "recommended pages"? Because yeah that is a revenue source I guess, but as long as I can turn it off I can let it slide

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    They get money from Google, advertisements, and selling data. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, why would you think that? Of course they do

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

    But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the "recommended pages"?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They got no gains from that only lost users

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