• @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    This can’t happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it’s got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.

  • @[email protected]
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    333 months ago

    Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It’s genius!

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      Likely it’ll use the cloud for processing, you’ll just get really hard-to-opt-out AI features, like “prompt by default” and “AI autocomplete”, which you can only “snooze” as they’ll automatically be turned back on the moment there’s a “great new feature”, like putting a filter on by default on image generators to fool the eye that it’s made by real artists.

  • Fenrir
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    193 months ago

    Validating my years old decision to use Firefox

  • Zier
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    263 months ago

    How to kill Chrome faster, make it AI only. LOL!!!

  • Kami
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    1183 months ago

    Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

      But, maybe “it will be different this time”, I guess.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).

      • Engywook
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        3 months ago

        Mozilla will loose Google’s deal money.

        • @[email protected]
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          143 months ago

          Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.

          • @[email protected]
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            73 months ago

            They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

            • @[email protected]
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              33 months ago

              Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

              • @[email protected]
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                43 months ago

                You can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

              • @[email protected]
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                23 months ago

                Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

                I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

                I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.

      • exu
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        293 months ago

        Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

        • @[email protected]
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          203 months ago

          Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

          My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

    • @[email protected]
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      493 months ago

      Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :

      Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

      Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    we had an intern ask AI what it could to to completely enshittify the browser. the AI simply responded, “put me in coach!”

  • @[email protected]
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    63 months ago

    I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.

  • @[email protected]
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    343 months ago

    How the fuck would this be more cost effective than them making their own chrome based browser and not be a demonstration of their over inflated operating costs and company valuation?

    If you are paying for a service that is charging you enough to allow them to buy the most widly used browser from a company whose business model is to monopolize data, then maybe you’re paying them a titbit more than what the service they’re providing is worth.

    • Phoenixz
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      43 months ago

      What allows them to buy chrome is ridiculous investment money, not what they’re charging. From what I read, I think they’re still running a loss because required processing power is still just so insanely ridiculous for AI.

    • MysticKetchup
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      633 months ago

      I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

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          The sheer market share that forces websites develop for chrome for maximum visibility, to force websites to allow their content to be scraped to be usable by the average user.