According to the page, it seems they wanna use their own servers for it.

I'm curious how well their own servers will handle that load, like sure they are used to web traffic but, there is a pretty big difference between downloading files and searches, and an always on VPN. I would expect traffic load to be way higher with the vpn. Granted the monthly cap will mean most will likely just only turn it on when needed like how samsungs free vpn was operated, but still.

What spez gotta do with this?

They aren't even in the same realm of bad though. Mozilla made a few tiny ai features. Google has spent hundreds of billions on it.

Personally, I use Zen, and I wonder if the VPN will be included & accessible to the FF mods like Zen, Waterfox etc

Mozilla keeps adding so much new stuff into the browser. AI or not, good or bad, it is just getting so damn bloated.

Not until the backlash. And the switch only will sorta turn it off. You'll need to change 15 flags in about:config while standing at a crossroad facing east while mercury is in retrograde.

You should have to turn shitty new features on, not turn them off. In fact, you should have to download them as an extension when you want them.

I use vpns daily. I'm quite familiar with their use.

I was pretty obviously poking fun at mozilla for some of their recent choices and rather iffy responses.

Humor is subjective. Just because a joke doesn't land for you doesn't mean it shouldn't be posted.

At least they contributed

I'll be honest. If it were mulvad that'd be a definite plus... But I'm still pretty opposed to a browser building in hard coded things that should be leveraging their extension / plugin function.

It reduces attack surface, bloat, and base resource usage and I'd imagine would simplify code. It improves visibility on what has been "added" for users not reading patch notes and neatly dodges potential regulation issues to boot.

I daily drove firefox right up until the AI issues. It was efficient, transparent, and reliable. I have no issue with them taking money from wherever they can get it. I do take issue with bloatware being opt out: especially when I need to go digging through settings for a new toggle... Only to find out its still wasting resources until you dig in about:config for several more flags.

Looking forward - I think regardless of our views on where features go and what they do... We all can agree that especially now we should have developers looking to make their apps as efficient as possible. Because at least for the foreseeable future - resources aren't getting cheaper.

Ugh. Sidebars. I feel like UI/UX ran out of good ideas and is staring to go full Caligula. A few more years and we'll be back to chonky xp UIs with 40% less space for the content you are trying to interact with.

LOL