Holy shit that image... we need to destroy AI I'm sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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This is indeed a disturbing universe.
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Image? The entire site feels ai guided.
The image isn't even used in the article, 100% it's a ragebait tactic for clicks.
It has been right add the top of the page, it looks like they changed it.
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Fuck off with this AI bullshit
ai;dr
oh wow. someone's actually using this.
Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?
I don't think Microslop really needs to sabotage Firefox. Firefox is doing a really good job of shooting their own selves in the foot.
I don't get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives.
It's obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it's all the same.
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There's a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can't dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better decisions than Chrome.
With that said, I didn't want Pocket, I didn't want AI, and I'm mildly annoyed that this sort of thing is in the default build. It feels like a windows installer asking you to install 10 additional programs, but the ticked boxes are greyed out. I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.
Firefox has been around long enough to have been both god tier and trash tier at different points. I don't think the AI focus is going to go well for Mozilla. I'd like them to focus on browser stuff.
I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.
3 out of those 4 are not even a thing in firefox
I had an ad in my Firefox settings for "Solo AI Website Creator". It's a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it's not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).
I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don't want.
I meeeean…. I kinda agree with you, but where exactly do you expect funding to come from? “Focus only on the browser. That they make no money off. Also stop accepting money from Google.”
Like I get it to an extent, it would be nice. But how exactly is “make no money” a viable business plan?
That's fair. I wouldn't reject money from Google but instead build up an endowment with it for when it eventually disappears. If you can recover your market share (maybe by investing in your browser - the peformance is lagging) then you can also demand more money from Google to set them as default. Finally, Mozilla is a non-profit and I wouldn't be opposed to them just asking for donations, like most non-profits.
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Nah, mozilla sabotaged firefox.
Por qué no los dos.
Mozilla could have had a foothold but they literally added AI into Firefox, so idk how far they're gonna get.
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Mozilla are perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves, thank you.
What's up with the AI slop image for this post?
Also, Mozilla is destroying Firefox by themselves, they don't need help from m$
The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title.
The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.
Given the image,i wouldn’t be at all surprised if the article were just AI
Was the image generated with copilot?
firefox really shouldnt be our only line of defence for decent browser..
Ah yes, I'm sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against
Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation's budget on everything that's not Firefox?
Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.
What's this about killing MDN?
In 2020 they fired the entire MDN writing team, slashed the budget, and basically left it in maintainance mode. The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit...
The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit
this would be a very good use of money, if the money actually reached the target audience
I've got no issues with helping people in need, but even if it's not an embezzlement scheme, this is extremely bad prioritization unless their priority is publicity.
MDN is a proven resource that's helped a lot of people learn to code. How many African translators can you hire for a milion a year, let alone like 8? How many more people would learn to code that way?l
But nah, let's feed money into "partners" that use some experimental teaching methods, while destroying a crucial learning resource because corona made us broke.
Edit: fact checked myself and the corp killed MDN, and they're paying the foundation to do projects like this through royalties.
Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.
Thundermail seems cool at least
Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they're just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/
as an encrypted email service.
You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.
Anti-steering stuff again. Besides that I'll always be a bit annoyed with Mozilla both with their design decisions for FirefoxOS and then how much they bungled it. RokuOS is still highly relevant while FirefoxOS descendents are real niche. Firefox is usually the default on Linux distros. Mozilla should have at least been pushing Linux distros that shipped Firefox on laptops/desktops since FirefoxOS was announced
Firefox makes a good fork base anyway
Deja vu
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