• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?

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    6 days ago

    There’s a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can’t dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better decisions than Chrome.

    With that said, I didn’t want Pocket, I didn’t want AI, and I’m mildly annoyed that this sort of thing is in the default build. It feels like a windows installer asking you to install 10 additional programs, but the ticked boxes are greyed out. I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.

    Firefox has been around long enough to have been both god tier and trash tier at different points. I don’t think the AI focus is going to go well for Mozilla. I’d like them to focus on browser stuff.

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      6 days ago

      I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.

      3 out of those 4 are not even a thing in firefox

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      6 days ago

      I had an ad in my Firefox settings for “Solo AI Website Creator”. It’s a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it’s not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).

      I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don’t want.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    What’s up with the AI slop image for this post?

    Also, Mozilla is destroying Firefox by themselves, they don’t need help from m$

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    5 days ago

    When Windows lets me make Dolphin the default file manager I’ll believe they don’t have a right to force people to use whatever product they wish.

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    6 days ago

    Microsoft hasn’t done anything wrong. Windows is a proprietary software and they can do whatever they want