Firefox to evolve into not existing.
But why !? Chatbots are useful enough, I don’t need AI anywhere else than when I explicitly choose to use it on my terms !
You wanna make money ? Make a chatbot that lies less and/or doesn’t reinforce people into their delusions, or one that runs for cheaper, or both.
AI is useful. Just like knives are useful. Doesn’t mean I want every object I own to also somehow be or contain multiple knives 😅
More often than not, a faster horse is actually all we need.
how would this afffect the forked versions like Waterfox, LibreWolf, IronFox? The AI part is a separated feature from mainline Firefox branch, so forks can choose not to include it?
For now
Hey tech companies. Consumers do not want more AI, they want less of it. Maybe we just need to get the word out?
I want it
Nope, time for a new browser.
WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.
I recommend waterfox and the DuckDuckGo browser, at least those 2 are good at least
Ducks browser runs on chrome though I highly recommend using anything but that because it contributes to chromes monopoly over the web.
Really excited for Ladybird and to see what Servo ends up being used in. Sad to see what Firefox is doing.
No you don’t, now suck down your government mandated AI slop and say thank you — you philistine.
I like to imagine that these CEOs just get like a million AI emails a day from alt accounts of Sam Altman begging them to put AI in everything and they’re all too stupud to realize it.
LibreWolf all the way
They have pushed me back to Vivaldi.
Not open source.
A non beneficial mutation at best.
Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore
Waterfox, Ironfox, Librewolf
Zen?
Netscape Navigator 4
Yes but all of these depend on the development team at Firefox. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that those three browsers would not continue if Firefox didn’t also continue. There’s still a lot of development work from Firefox.
At this point I think the safer route would be to just accept the Chromium hegemony and build a free browser from that.
Firefox still at least have a far far far more permissive OSS license than Chromium, so I’d say stick with that
Yeah this ain’t it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won’t be possible as Firefox enshittifies
Since everyone is mentioning browsers, what should we use on mobile now? Tor isn’t really a option, since most sites won’t let you access them by it.
Also Waterfox
Firefox, Firefox Focus, Fennec, IronFox.
Plenty of choice for different needs.
