Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
  • CrackedLinuxISO ( CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    10 months ago

    He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

    Doesn’t want to do that? Just like how 6 months ago, Sam Altman said he didn’t want OpenAI to do adult content? Hopefully I’m overreacting, but I’m worried more about this kind of thinking than an AI feature.

    • N0x0n ( N0x0n@lemmy.ml ) 
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      10 months ago

      That’s a long terme goal sadly :/ Either they’re slowly doing this to avoid a mass movement to another browser (but which one :() or that’s some inside job to slowly kill and let Firefox die ^^

  • its_me_xiphos ( its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ) 
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    10 months ago

    The issue I have with the responses are that forking or running lite browsers is not a solution but a work around. A work around that requires vigilance in the rapidly changing tech space. Most people can’t do that. It won’t result in systematic change that we need to stop enshitification. I’m not downplaying your work and a counter movement, far from it, but its simply not enough without more resources to stop the deluge of nonsense.

    I dont have answers, and there are too many challenges to count to list here. From politics to how business schools teach. So we are stuck with a domineering overlord with both the resources to make it all look simple and fluid and to make the work of innovators increasingly difficult.

  • coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) English
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    10 months ago

    As anti-AI as I am, this is way less sensational than the headline makes it sound. They’re adding an AI mode that’s basically a built-in extension. Sounds easy to disable. I hate this shit, but you have to grant that Mozilla is a small company fighting for survival. They are probably just doing this to stay relevant (maybe they can get more money from google by being the default AI provider as well), and they may just as quickly drop this when the AI bubble finally pops. I am willing to forgive Mozilla for a little more than I forgive Microsoft, who has no real reason to push this AI hype other than trying to get more rich.

    • 7toed ( 7toed@midwest.social ) English
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      10 months ago

      money from google by…

      I mean, in a way it has always been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Default search provider - fair enough to change - but now that ain’t good enough for google, and it won’t ever be

  • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    10 months ago

    Man, I’ve been a staunch defender of Mozilla for a long time, but they’re making it clearer and clearer that they just want to be Chrome. I think it’s time to start hunting for another, again.

    Maybe I’ll give PaleMoon another go! I was surprised to see Maxthon and Midori were still alive, but they seem a little shady now?

  • Banzai51 ( Banzai51@midwest.social ) English
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    10 months ago

    Mozilla: Continuing Netscape’s legacy of shitty leadership.

    Mozilla: Still pissed they only shipped a browser and email client instead of obtaining W O R L D D O M I N A T I O N!!!