Man it’s so funny how the only company that even thinks about allowing you to not have AI, gets so much shit from people.
OK you don’t like AI, you can turn in off. They added an option for that. Meanwhile Chrome is automatically downloading 4gb worth of models without your consent. Same with basically each other browser.
Folks are free to use whichever distro they like, Librefox, Waterfox, but remember that without Mozilla foundation the very engine would stop working. Then these forks will not work anymore. Then where will you go? Chromium? Safari?
It’s important to keep companies accountable, but nothing is ever black and white.
I’ve been looking in my laptop and PC (both running CachyOS) for that download Chrome is pushing, and haven’t been able to find it in any of them. I’m not saying it’s not happening, I’m saying that it seems like some Linux distros are immune to that crap.
People seem to care more about synthetic benchmarks than using a browser that gives them much less tracking and ads. Remember when chrome was popular because its so fast? I never noticed a difference between that and Firefox in ordinary web pages, except Googles, since they are intentionally making it slow for Firefox.
And with all that going on, people still picked chrome. :)
OK you don’t like AI, you can turn in off. They added an option for that. Meanwhile Chrome is automatically downloading 4gb worth of models without your consent. Same with basically each other browser.
Because Chrome is used by normies who have no idea and wont care while Firefox is used by tech-literate users who care and like to tinker. The backlash was because FF implemented AI that you had to go to about:settings to disable. Result of backlash - a switch in settings to disable it.
It would be smart to implement AI and advertise people that they can switch it ON if they want to. Not the other way.
Folks are free to use whichever distro they like, Librefox, Waterfox, but remember that without Mozilla foundation the very engine would stop working. Then these forks will not work anymore
There is nothing to go to. But if we accept the outcome, we just submit to the system. Might as well switch to chrome at that point hoping that Servo gets developed fast enough. Firefox would lose their browser share at an instant once they are not different from chromium based browsers. Basically seppuku themselves.
Not understanding your user base is how you get a backlash.
Man it’s so funny how the only company that even thinks about allowing you to not have AI, gets so much shit from people.
OK you don’t like AI, you can turn in off. They added an option for that. Meanwhile Chrome is automatically downloading 4gb worth of models without your consent. Same with basically each other browser.
Folks are free to use whichever distro they like, Librefox, Waterfox, but remember that without Mozilla foundation the very engine would stop working. Then these forks will not work anymore. Then where will you go? Chromium? Safari?
It’s important to keep companies accountable, but nothing is ever black and white.
Yeah - people love to shit on Mozilla while posting from fucking Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Yeah I get the feeling like 70+% of people here will never understand that.
I like Vivaldi
I’ve been looking in my laptop and PC (both running CachyOS) for that download Chrome is pushing, and haven’t been able to find it in any of them. I’m not saying it’s not happening, I’m saying that it seems like some Linux distros are immune to that crap.
People seem to care more about synthetic benchmarks than using a browser that gives them much less tracking and ads. Remember when chrome was popular because its so fast? I never noticed a difference between that and Firefox in ordinary web pages, except Googles, since they are intentionally making it slow for Firefox.
And with all that going on, people still picked chrome. :)
I think you have to enable it now too, they heard people weren’t fans and responded.
I like that.
Because Chrome is used by normies who have no idea and wont care while Firefox is used by tech-literate users who care and like to tinker. The backlash was because FF implemented AI that you had to go to about:settings to disable. Result of backlash - a switch in settings to disable it.
It would be smart to implement AI and advertise people that they can switch it ON if they want to. Not the other way.
There is nothing to go to. But if we accept the outcome, we just submit to the system. Might as well switch to chrome at that point hoping that Servo gets developed fast enough. Firefox would lose their browser share at an instant once they are not different from chromium based browsers. Basically seppuku themselves.
Not understanding your user base is how you get a backlash.
Its okay we’ll just cope with living in idiocracy. Some of this stuff is beyond basic. No wonder people find IT a thankless Job.