Here's the original article from Mozilla instead of this third-party AI slop regurgitating it.

Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?

Holy shit that image... we need to destroy AI I'm sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web

Fuck off with this AI bullshit

ai;dr

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.

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.

Was the image generated with copilot?

Downvoting for unsolicited AI slop on my feed.

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.

Mozilla are perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves, thank you.

firefox really shouldnt be our only line of defence for decent browser..

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$

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

Nah, mozilla sabotaged firefox.

Mozilla could have had a foothold but they literally added AI into Firefox, so idk how far they're gonna get.

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.

The only thing destroying Firefox is Mozilla themselves.

Firefox makes a good fork base anyway

Deja vu

When Windows lets me make Dolphin the default file manager I'll believe they don't have a right to force people to use whatever product they wish.

Not fair! Mozilla can self-sabotage without the help of Microslop, thank you very much!