WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.
I recommend waterfox and the DuckDuckGo browser, at least those 2 are good at least
Hey tech companies. Consumers do not want more AI, they want less of it. Maybe we just need to get the word out?
I want it
I was saying boo urns! We get it. You are being served. The rest of us are being forced.
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.
Come on, this isn’t Reddit, at least skim the article before you start with the performative outrage.
It should be something that people can easily turn ON.
It’s not needed. Nobody is looking for AI powered shit and they will feel it in their numbers. Why invest the pennies Mozilla can invest in a technology that big monsters are developing with billions and billions of dollars and natural resources? It’s not even reasonable, like a Pocket 2.0.
Unfortunate Newsflash:
It’s smaller reddit.
The lowest common denominator consumes all. And that denominator includes not being able to read articles or apply critical thought.
Nobody’s saying it’s mandatory. People don’t want their web browsers to be full of bloated AI slop. Why should there be the AI components of Firefox on my hard drive if I’m never going to use them? Why should my web browser be full of low quality features I’ll never use? It’s enshittification. Not to mention the very quote you’re pasting specifies that it’s opt-out, not opt-in.
Few read the articles around here, like any social media. I could come with a headline that Bill Gates proposed using trans people’s brains for AI processing, Matrix style, and harvesting the water of the dead ones, a la Dune. Lemmy would eat it up.
Firefox to evolve into not existing.
Yeah I just don’t understand the strategy here. You’re not going to Out-AI Google and Microsoft, and so I don’t know who both wants an “AI Browser” but wants an alternative to the offerings of those companies.
I like to imagine that these CEOs just get like a million AI emails a day from alt accounts of Sam Altman begging them to put AI in everything and they’re all too stupud to realize it.
If they truly believe in their AI offerings, they should release them as an extension so users can choose to install them. You only bundle shit people don’t want. If it’s good, you distribute it stand-alone.
They’re going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?
That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.
Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore
how would this afffect the forked versions like Waterfox, LibreWolf, IronFox? The AI part is a separated feature from mainline Firefox branch, so forks can choose not to include it?
Can’t wait for ladybird to arrive to leave all this current browser crap behind me.
Remember to donate to open source development, y’all!
Thanks for the suggestion. Says on it’s site summer 2026 is target for release. Still a while away, I wonder how long we have with Firefox before this takes over…
As long as there is a easy way to disable it. And clearly communicated what they are doing. I do not begrudge mozilla trying to remain competitive with mainstream.
As long as we can remove our mouths from being wrapped around the…
Nope, time for a new browser.
Very unfortunate development, which seems par for the course from Mozilla these days.
I’m jumping ship. Which browser would y’all recommend at this point? Preferably something I can get on android as well as linux.
LibreWolf is a great alternative on Linux. It’s Firefox with all the bs stripped out and out-of-the-box privacy settings turned on.
This is what I have used for the last few years (after being a Firefox user for almost 2 decades), and yeah we’re probably safe for a little while, but it seems the writing is on the wall. The LibreWolf team can only do so much when the core browser is constantly being enshittified. I hoped this was a flash in the pan thing and LibreWolf would save us until Mozilla regained its senses, but it seems they’ve gone batshit.
I too will be keeping my eyes peeled for what to use next.
Floorp, brave, fennec
As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.
It does matter a bit.
Librewolf devs depend on firefox development. They just rip out the stupid bits. They’re not prepared to maintain a hard fork. They could still decide to do it, but it would take more community involvement.
It increases the workload for fork devs the more crap they have to remove from upstream and the more the fork deviates from upstream.
Is there a Librewolf for phones? Can I somehow self-host the synchronization services?
