• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    It is not really FUD to point out that Mozilla wastes ungodly amounts of money on projects of dubious utility instead of investing it into their browser. Their current trajectory doesn’t inspire much confidence either. Mozilla started to waste even more money on ‘AI’ features nobody asked for.

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      Mozilla doesn’t exist to fund Firefox. Firefox exists to fund Mozilla. It’s been that since the very fucking beginning: Mozilla is a general internet charity that makes money with a browser. It’s always been that way. It never has been any different. I may have to repeat myself: The purpose of Mozilla isn’t to fund Firefox the purpose of Firefox is to be a money-maker for Mozilla’s charitable causes.

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      Actually, their new AI thing is actually useful: stays on-device, and summarizes web pages and videos.

      But yes, they could stand to spend more money on the browser, and less on their CEO and other non-browser things.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah. Offline translation (i.e. that doesn’t send data to Google to translate), better screen reader functionality for blind people? Sign me the fuck up.

        People are just seeing “AI” and getting upset about it. Absolutely stupid.

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          I’ll be honest, when I first heard that Mozilla had come out with an AI I figured it was on the back of them trying a couple different ad scenarios, and assumed the worst. Pleasantly surprised by Orbit.

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          6 days ago

          We already have one. They’re called luddites. They’ve always existed, and will bemoan any new technological advancement.