Longtime State Lawmaker Quits Democratic Party: 'It Has Become Untenable and Counterproductive'
A former Democratic legislator from rural Kentucky who joined the GOP declares, "I didnโt leave the party - the party left me."Jack Davis (The Western Journal)
jonny (good kind)
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •"We are stopping the thing that lets you make and share curated collections of offline pages with a little algorithmic affinity recommendation overlay because people don't want to manage reading lists and want to only have algorithmic recommendations.
Don't worry we basically fully replaced them with bookmarks (??) and a different tab orientation (??) because people still want to manage reading lists (??). But you can't actually import your pocket export to those things, and since they don't actually replace them we won't just move your data to them and will just delete it in a few months.
In conclusion, this is why pivoting to focus on the same gimmicks everyone else is focusing on and transitioning your personalized collections to generic AI slop reflects our being the most independent organization ever (???) Which lets us prioritize personalization (????)"
excuse me can you repeat that? blink twice if you need someone to come get you
jonny (good kind)
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •I wouldn't say I know a ton of people, but I know enough, and none of them use Firefox unless they are a privacy wingnut or otherwise have some specific reason to hate Google and Apple. It just isn't a better piece of software than Chrome, it can't be and never will be, Google has infinity dollars, it competed on a different axis and that was fine for the people the use it because privacy is more important than perf or ux. The 2% of browser share that use Firefox are those privacy Wingnuts.
The one moz employee that frequently wanders into these threads once promised to show us the user research that is informing them and making them think "people who use Firefox are fine with ads, love them, don't mind having surprise advertising tech running in the browser that explicitly tells them it won't do that, and are apparently now clambering for more AI in their browser" and I suspect we probably won't. There just is no way that someone who thinks that the series of bad calls Firefox has made recently are actually fine would use Firefox.
jonny (good kind)
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •I'm not defending their AI strategy but I don't think it's *that โAIโ*. Examples of the AI they invest in is local in-browser translation and fake review detection. Itโs more of a "traditional" ML rather than fancy LLM.
There also was text-to-speech model done in collab with Mozilla (with fully available and open voice samples data set) but I don't know if it was ever even intended to be used in the browser.
I actually use their translation extension (which uses their translation model). I also use Google Translate extension. Google Translate outright refuses to translate some bits of text (5-10%) while Mozilla's extension translates everything. GT is a tiny bit better when it works but it's extremely frustrating when it doesnโt. Consistency of Mozilla's translation is much more preferable to me. I'd even go as far as saying it's good AI.
dave
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •well, LIbrewolf seems a better choice. Even then, you will be owned by 52/8 54/8 34/8 and 35/8 netblocks from Amazon and Google unless you get rid of push, ping, shopping the control addresses and a few other things.
You see, they put a lot of work into this, mainly out of self interest. It's not for you.
If you're online, they will try to stop you from changing or even scrolling down to certain things in about.config
They infiltrate everything.
keep on eye on that pile of underwear.
barrkel
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •the primary use case for Firefox is Tree Style Tabs
That's the big one.
Containers (for separating logins more than privacy) and a working ublock origin probably make up the rest.
Chloรฉ Azencott
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •A shitton of stuff goes into a browser, but I'm pretty sure for >90% of users it would not make a difference whatsoever if they're using Chrome or Firefox. The differences between modern browsers are honestly so minimal, no average person is going to notice.
Privacy? A few odd extensions? RAM usage?
I'd argue that the only people who notice *any difference at all* are people on a similar level of technological expertise as us "privacy wingnuts"
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •If (can I still use "if" here?) Mozilla abandon all its principles and went down the Google way... what's the point in using Firefox?
Dan Goodman
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Heads up I tagged them in the other comment I posted.
Bill Seitz
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)dave
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •No I do not want to save anything to the Amazon cloud, though Mozilla will push you there and what they hell is it with the 34.0.0.0/8 DDOS when I try to turn off your SPY TOOLS??? @mozilla
dave
in reply to dave • • •#Google employees "volunteer" their time to work on #Firefox, and make it there own.
Even when you are using it on your desktop.
Do you wonder why people say #FuckGoogle? Look at these Google addresses, when I launch my browser on my computer at home.
Fuck #Google
Anyone who offers an excuse for this will be blocked. There is none, and this a mild example.
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •That last sentence so reminds me of Microsoft around the year 2000.
Mozilla is dead inside.
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in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •Says the company financed by Google as a fucking figleaf
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