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Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted (www.techspot.com)
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[+] -9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Mozilla take note. You can actually get money from your users for a change, and not just through Google.

Especially when your userbase, the people you're supposedly building your browser for, keep telling you to keep AI out of it.

Brave is actually listening to their users. Mozilla should feel humiliated that they never do.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Mozilla, the company that recently added a "disable AI" toggle to Firefox?

    It's not as good as not implementing the things in the first place, for people who don't want it, but making it a paid model for removing features would net them more flack, I feel. They'd be accused of trying to squeeze their user base, when Firefox is traditionally free.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I saw that toggle for the first time today. Made me feel a little better about all the AI stuff and that sometimes my telemetry settings reset. I don't know if the tele thing is ff or just my config to be clear. Today my wife asked me for how to get rid of the ai search summary in Chrome. That leads me to believe that even some "normies" aren't thrilled with AI everywhere. I agree with you that a paid version of ff would rankle the community.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    It's not as good as not implementing the things in the first place

    Then you understand exactly why Mozilla is so problematic.

    Mozilla wrote the playbook that said "Defaults matter!!!" and then Mozilla made their defaults shit. Mozilla should be apologizing to you for requiring a switch to begin with. If they had any semblance of morality, they would be endlessly contrite.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I get all Mozilla hate, but I'd rake them twice before touching google with a 10m-pole.

    And what else have we got? Some more or less decent forks of either Firefox or chrome. Which still needs the base to exist.

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