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[-] romp_2_door@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

I mean they've been pedaling AI crap for a while without negative backlash.

Similarly they tried to ride the Blockchain train back in the crypto scam days and also didn't face any backlash.

They've publicly vouched to become an AI company and an advertising company without backlash.

I think most Firefox users don't care

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 hours ago

What they mean with AI features is also their offline website translation feature, which is something I've wanted for years. The alternative is online Google website translation.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago

I think most Firefox users don’t care

Oh we care, but there's no alternative besides Chrome and Safari and those companies are even worse (Google definitely is, anyway, Apple is debatable)

Luckily there's still alternatives like Librewolf that unfortunately still use Mozilla's browser engine.

I do hope the Servo project will be ready to use in a production browser soon.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago

Apple is definitely just as fucking terrible.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Compared to Google? Idk. Google doesn't sell any products to the end user so that says a lot about who the customers are.

Apple sells products. Apple users ARE the customers.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

No. Apple's just getting paid from both sides.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We are stuck with Firefox based browsers for a few years at the minimum as it takes a really long time to develop an engine.

Also Servo is very much not the only thing around. Ladybird exists as well

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Honestly a lot of Firefox users are eyeing forks

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