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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unfortunately the current leadership at Mozilla are also trying to pivot into being an advertisement and “AI” company smh. Hopefully they get back on track soon but rn it’s looking rough there

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I sincerely doubt it. Fundamentally, web advertising is nearing its biological limit - there’s only so much of people’s time you can colonize and direct towards profitable purchases. That tit has been sucked dry. Which is why tech giants are trying to move to a more direct kind of profiteering/rent seeking.

I’m not sure (though it could just be cope) that a sufficient bumber of people are going to take them up on it. OpenAI has sunk a truly ridiculous amount of wealth into the slop generator and I cannot imagine anyone but the most brain broken dipshits queuing up to pay like 50 a month to make it break even, let alone make a profit.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I switched to librewolf because of this.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like I'll be not updating my firefox

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using an out of date browser is one of the worst things you can do security wise. You're better off switching to a fork like librewolf.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do extensions still work in forks?

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Not sure about the other forks but they work in LibreWolf.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Google is an advertisement company.
Chrome is owned by Google.
Chrome is owned by an advertisement company.
Google makes money by using data collected by Chrome to sell ads targeted at you.
Google uses your personal information to sell ads.
Chrome was designed to collect your personal information to sell ads.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why not fork their own browser? puzzled

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They buy all couple billion existing users as well, and the stronger branding of Chrome

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the answer, but unless they want to be a browser company (not impossible) I doubt they will maintain it as well as Google. Likewise, Chrome was a loss leader designed to funnel users into Google's profitable ventures of advertising and search, but apparently OpenAI does not have a profitable sector whatsoever.

Mitigating factor: OpenAI leverages its ownership of Chrome to funnel users into Bing for money.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

I think OpenAI is creating their own search, that's probably the end goal to make that the default on Chrome and have chatgpt as a default extension too

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Know a guy that didn't even know what Firefox was a few years ago when I asked why he was still using Chrome.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did this person wake up from a coma and completely skip the 00’s?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is in his late 40s and still really into stoner culture so kind of. Also the biggest blue MAGA I personally know, I remember joking about Hillary running again and he gave an non-ironic "Hell yeah".

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Late 40s and stoner culture checks out. I’m happy to be part of the generation that uses weed as a crutch, not a personality lol.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

part of the generation that uses weed as a crutch

classic

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Because it's a stock price grift and forking a browser doesn't juice the line like announcing you might buy the browser used by 65% of the world at sell-off prices due to a monopoly ruling. They won't buy it. And even if they did all that would happen is that it would immeadiately hemorrage users to its competitors because people use Chrome because it's a Google default, not some weird increasingly broken AI niche thing that the company can't even afford to run.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I just want my internet browsers to work dawg. I don’t want AI, I want shit to load and not eat all 64 GB ram in my machine. I just want software to work bro. Please, just make software that does what’s on the tin. Also stop fucking with ublock origin

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is a local restaurant whose online menu only works in Chrome. It's like, this is takeout, what fucking computation is happening here that requires a specific web package? This should be a PDF with a phone number on it and it should load instantaneously

[–] Red5@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember visiting Italy just as things were opening after Covid and one very small restaurant had a QR code on the table which took you to a website where you had the choice of downloading the android or iOS app for the menu. My friends did it and it crashed immediately.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

"hello restaurant I would like to pay you money for your food"

restaurant: mario-finger

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I physically recoiled

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago
[–] D61@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago
[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

for a company that loses money with every transaction, this will be the kursk offensive of business deals

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was also some article saying they wanted to pivot to social media. They're just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks because they have no clue how to monetize chatgpt

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

They’re prompting it “where do we go from here?”

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The enshittification will continue until the rate of profit improves

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

until the rate of profit improves

(it will not)

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Problem: People saying thank you to our chatbots on paid plans is losing us too much money.

Solution: Let's take over a browser used by 65% of the world, stuff it full of AI features, and serve it for free! Cha-ching!

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

...and serve the basic version for free.

You want to have more than five tabs open? That's a Chrome Pro feature.

porky-happy

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

I'm just gonna shill SRWare Iron here

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago
[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh please please please, that would be so damn funny. Would love to see it become even more unusable than it already is. Please, AI companies, just buy up every single big tech things and then all of it will go away when the market bubble bursts.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Starting to feel like AI is reaching too big to fail levels and we’ll never see a bubble burst doomer

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

It does have actual use cases, but the way it is set up and operates in the west is just a giant pyramid scheme, it'll go the way of NFTs, Bitcoin and the dot com bubble sooner or later. These companies just keeping making more and more profit but no actual value. Sooner or later people will be forced to accept that AI as it exists can't actually do any of the hypothetical future claims they say it might do and people will stop investing and the bag holders will be ruined and the people who started this will have become far more obscenely wealthy than before and suffer no real consequences. doomer

[–] turmoil@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

nobody asked for this

i guess I can at least stop amending every search with "reddit" to get actual information if it's just going to browse reddit for me anyway