It’s weird to me that the only thing Mozilla says about AI in the ad, besides the fact it’s optional to use, is that people are creeped out by it.
If they only present a thing as bad, isn’t the natural next step to simply remove it? Nobody is forcing them to ship it.
two-faced mozilla is trying very much to chase the newest trends and play the both sides, showing off whichever fits them at the moment. now these chatbots are creepy and no one wants them but at the same they have to add them to firefox because they’re the future and everyone wants them. just like all that times they talked about how personalized ads are bad and then added a preselected toggle to send performance data to advertisers. or when they talk about giving users more power and choice and then implement widevine’s cdm.
they want a userbase but also want the money to keep flowing, so they’ll tell the users what they want to hear and then implement the newest fad to keep in good terms with the big tech.
Never left. Great browser and other utilities. I’d love to see them reboot Netscape Navigator!
A gentle reminder that Firefox executable is no longer open source. It’s source available.
Firefox executable is now governed by a Terms of Use (instead of the Mozilla License) that allows your telemetry to be used for any reason.
Switch to Ironfox or Waterfox if you want all the benefits of Firefox without giving your data to Mozilla.
You mean LibreWolf?
I personally would have switched to LibreWolf, but they don’t have a builtin password manager. And its a bit too restrictive too. I guess Waterfox would be a better alternative, but don’t know how fast they update when Firefox updates.
Just curious - why is the built in password manager a deal breaker? I’ve always used a 3rd party solution because I am looking for the ultimate in password manager portability because I use different browsers for work and personal.
I’m fragmented. I have Firefox and ironfox on my desktop, and librewolf on my phone.
You mean the other way around
A gentle reminder that Firefox executable is no longer open source. It’s source available.
What does that mean? What do you mean by the executable is not Open Source? Firefox project is hosted online and can be used to build Firefox. Or do you suggest that Firefox builds include binary blobs?
Mozilla follows the same model is Microsoft Code with Firefox that the source code is FOSS but it’s bineries are not.
Firefox, the executable application, is not open source and is considered “source available” because the Terms of Service contains exclusions that are against the tenants of freedoms that must exist in open source software.
Firefox, the source code, is still licensed via Mozilla Public License and is open source. If you compile it yourself, you must call it something other than Firefox.
It’s obviously still open source or the various downstream forks of it wouldn’t be able to exist.
It’s why I differentiated the Firefox executable vs Firefox the application code.
Firefox the application code is still open source. The executable binary is not.
That’s true, but it just seems like a silly distinction cooked up by some overly paranoid lawyer working for firefox, that has no practical effect.
I mean, it most definitely isn’t, no matter what browser you use. The old internet is dead and never coming back. the closest thing we have to it is the fediverse, but even then corpos are starting to take notice.
Okay I actually love this ad!
I just wish they would take their own words into account and ship with DDG or qwant as default instead of the default Google search engine…
Why is ddg advertising lately? They seem to be doing alright.
“The line needs to go up” - DDG, probably
They have profits?
This absolutely is the ad we need out there.
For us here on fedi, yes we all use librewolf or something. And the idea that the internet is going to shit is a daily conversation.
But for Joe Shmoe and his grandma, oftentimes how do you even begin to explain all that? This they can relate to and maybe snap them out of the endless big tech scroll.
The internet I loved still exists. It is gemini.
