Firefox

Eww.

I'm so fucking tired of CEOs and their shit-ass ideas

Everyone hated that

What a douche.

"Modern", "AI" - buzzwords for shareholders

No. One. Wants. That.

We have nowhere better to go. But that's only for now, you short-sighted dumbass...

Gross.

I guess im looking for a new browser. Anyone have a good alternative?

Fucking yikes.

What I want: a secure browser that does just that and nothing more.

I'm so sick of AI everything.

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

How about you make it something people have to turn on, and make it useful enough that they will enable it?

The entire premise of me going on a fucking tangent trying to reclaim my privacy and identity is because of the invasiveness of AI. I didn't sign up to Mozilla to be fed more AI bullshit, I did it quite the inverse. The fact that I can't be left the fucking god damn alone from AI enshitification infuriates me.

Am I going to need to build my own fucking web browser to avoid this shit?! Rhetorical question, the answer is yes, yes I will.

Quick, I got 5 weeks of break before classes start for me again, if any developer wants to build a web browser from scratch with me let me know and ill make the github repo.

Edit: on second thought we could implement our browser as a fork of gnome web instead of from scratch. GNOME web isn't a derivative/fork of Firefox or chromium, however there are components from apple, like it's rendering engine. Besides that, it's not a bad idea to use

Boo this man!

Headline is misleading. That is one sentence from a list of three points.

• First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
• Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
• Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

I think the more important statement, and one that I agree with, is in the first point.

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

If this is the goal then I agree. Mush as AI annoys me, I don't care if they build AI features into the browser. There are enough people that do want AI features for it makes sense to do so. But it needs to be optional. I don't want to have to keep going into about:config to disable AI features that should have been opt-in in the first place.

Dear AI Techbros.

Why is AI in my browser something desirable for the common man?

Mozilla is a lost cause, and Firefox is too big to be rescued by one singular web-browsing development entity (that's because the web has become too complicated so as to allow for terminal capitalism).

The solution is, honestly, for a well-constituted organization to hard-fork the web standards model as a whole package, to start a sort of "re-web" project. Pick up something like gemini but iterate it to a level where it can actually be useful (gemini, nifty as it is, is actually less capable of layout and styling than the printing press from the 1500s and that's saying something). Maintain a "convertible subset" of HTML+CSS as an input option for people who want to maintain and develop simple sites that might want to eventually convert to re-web.

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

Oh, geez.

I’ve already switched to librewolf because of the ai update

It’s really just a matter of trust and they’ve clearly chosen to trust ai first and users second. That’s why you must turn it off instead of having to turn it on.

sad state of affairs