I really can't stand their skewed priorities in contrast to the state of Firefox.

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

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...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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