Yeah, that's great Mozilla. Have fun with that. You just make sure that shit can be compiled out so I can use a forked project that's had all the stupid sanitized out of it.

You already lost my trust at "something you can turn off". This shit doesn't not need to be enabled by default in the first place.

I hope this doesn't screw over the forks like LibreWolf, IceCat, and Waterfox.

These two statements seem at odds:

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

And later:

It will evolve into a modern AI browser

Ladybird cannot get here soon enough

People trust our brand.

Unspoken rest of the idea, “Let’s take advantage of that.”

Mozilla continuing to take wrong turns.

It will evolve into a modern AI browser

Are you serious right now bro?!! We don't want an AI Browser!! We want a browser that keeps us private, secure and safe and doesn't include any AI slop....

Fuuuucckk!

I've stuck with Mozilla for so long despite missing a lot of things I could've had, you know, for freedom.

But this is not the correct course anymore. This sounds like the same AI bullshit we get shoved down our throats everywhere.

Business speak like always, which tbh normal people should just tune out. We'll see if firefox changes for the good or for the worse when it gets updated.

This is not why I use firefox

I forgot to make a donation to Ladybird. Mozilla is fucked up beyond repair.

Some people want AI? Fine, there are plugins for that. Just stop the bullshit and focus on

• Stability
• Speed
• Efficiency
• Compliance to standards

Add a nice and customizable GUI and plugin support and you are golden.

Are there things an "AI browser" can do that a normal browser with an AI plugin can't? Fine, then improve the plugin support. Stay in your lane.

Ok get fucked Mozilla. Lynx it is...

April fools! Haha... Wait... Guys?... It's April, right?.... Guys?.... Tell me it's FUCKING APRIL!

Does Ladybird have a release date yet?

But what does "modern AI browser" mean. Do I need tokens for web searches? Tokens for page loads? Am I only allowed to go to sites the browser decides based on my past history, also paid for with tokens?

Well fuck

Cool, cool... time to unistall Firefox then.

Thank Satan for all those projects that de-trash Firefox for everyone. Not waterfox though, that dev has explicitly said he isn’t committed to personal privacy and such.

While this is obviously not thrilling news to the fuck_ai crowd, it isn’t that bad either.

A new CEO is going to express a grand vision. In fact, we kind of hope they do lest they be weaselly caretakers who flip-flop on major initiatives.

And AI is pretty much every other word in any tech CEO’s statement right now. They get penalized if they don’t use it. I’m reading it here like, “All you big institutional donors, don’t fret we’re still in the goddamned boat with you fuckers” while at the same time saying “well turn it off if you want” - a kind of common sense statement sorely lacking in exactly this kind of statement.

So I give it a B- / C+. Not in danger yet, just needs improvement. A statement like this can’t really “win” anything so you want people to be sort of interested and kinda bored with it. Perfect.

RIP

Its so over. Time to finally fork off.

Oof on to the next one

Again, I’m a pro (local) LLM extremist as far as the Fediverse goes, but “automated” browsers should not be shipped by default like this.

It should be a separate tool or “mode” or extension you choose to activate temporarily, with very narrow scopes. Things like “turn this webpage dark and get rid of the autoplay videos” or “filter the AI slop from these results” or “put this messy shopping site into a table for me.” Not the 100,000th implementation of an “ask me anything!” Chatbot shoved in your face like Copilot.

And FYI, we already have them. FF doesn’t need to do it:

https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica

Honestly, “AI” feels like a disease infecting boards and high level executives. Or perhaps more accurately, the Orions Arm definition of a Meme:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47abccd6ee698

Memetic Demons are self-perpetuating patterns which use mental and social processes as their hardware and software, propagating ideas and belief systems with negative social and psychological effects.

Where - as standard totemic memes often work to attain the best for all sentients they come in contact with, or at least maintain an equilibrium (happiness vs. suffering, life vs. death), memetic demons seem to promote their own group or cause at the expense of all others. This may include any number of clever and insidious behaviors that either attack sentients external to the group or coerce the initiation of individuals reasoned to be "strong" in some regard.

Even for a company like Mozilla, once the idea is planted, it’s like they can’t think straight, and feel compelled to shove copilot into whatever their specialization is immediately.

I just switched to using Zen because of this. I need to get used to this new browser but if I can evade AI through this I gladly learn how another browser works.

I feel like they've been threatening to add AI to Firefox for a while now and still nothing has materialised (that I've noticed). As long as it can be disabled, I don't mind that much.

Can I finally install web apps?

So, Mullvad or Vivaldi now?