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It’s kinda telling, that there is no “Stop implementing AI” options, only how it could be used in a “responsible / open / transparent” way. So I guess they are way past that point? I used the free text fields to express my opinion.
I use a spin-off. Zen. There are several others with different focuses. Still the Firefox ecosystem, but Firefox with the stupid stuff gone.
I haven’t heard of Zen. I’ve heard of Librewolf, Waterfox, and Ice…cat? Ice-something. Probably not the most popular name right now.
Some say they eat away at Mozilla’s market share. I’m not sure that’s true — what do you think? I figure they all probably identify (user agent) as mozilla. So using them should benefit Mozilla when they go to look at market share or whatever. I just don’t wanna give any ground to Chrome.
I don’t care, personally, if they eat at Mozilla’s (minuscule) share. I use software for my purposes. If it doesn’t suit my purposes I switch to software that does.
Mozilla lost my trust with the Pocket fiasco. They’ve repeatedly since shown that they either do not care about or do not understand what I use a browser for. (Hint: it’s in the name “web browser”.) When I came across an alternative that worked, and that just as Mozilla started pushing AI crud into their product, I made the switch.
I owe nothing to Mozilla. They owe nothing to me. But I get to decide which browser I run, and if they want it to be theirs they have to make it something I want to run.