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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

That's a good idea to put first. Of course, like do no evil, priorities change, so we'll need to keep a close eye on this.

Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.

Transparent is good, but if he things he's going to add value to monetization, he's smoking crack. There's nothing we want from a browser that's not already provided by a plugin.

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

Nobody wants that. We already had all we wanted from them in trusted software.

[-] coriza@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if that is the reason but I wonder if the recent ruling that made Firefox loose on the cash income from Google as a default search engine has them doing a similar type of deal with AI companies, even Google, like, Firefox has a built-in interface for AI and the backend you can choose but the default one is one that some AI company pay a fee to be.

If that is the case I think it is fine, it is like a wink-wink situation, you have to have it enabled by default and with a default provider for it to be worth something for someone to pay for the privilege, and then the users can simply change it be gone with it without affecting the payout. (Unless the pay or renew pay has some metric like use statistics)

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Its impossible to exist without money and you won't buy a browser so

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sure you can. Shits been existing for billions of years.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

How many fully open source browsers are there without massive labor or money infusions? Note all the browsers that are essentially chrome with a different skin?

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