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[–] [email protected] 106 points 6 months ago (3 children)

FF is doing great. All the have to do now is the Steam strategy. Do nothing and wait for the competition to fuck themselves over.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Steam's strategy was to be first to market and essentially the only player in the game for a decade, making themselves the default.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You mean hope that they too don't become subject to enshittification? I don't have a lot of faith in that.

Besides that, Google is controlling as fuck. They might keep fucking themselves over but there's no way they won't start attempting to ruin things for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It seems Mozilla is not immune to the AI hype. I just hope their AI endeavour won't kill them when the AI hype finally ends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

to be fair they are the only ones i know of putting it to actual good use.

ai itself is not the problem.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully the AI use is very tame so far, used for stuff like offline alt text generation and offline translation. I'm personally still concerned about copyrights and ethics of the models used, but at least it's directed towards providing specific features, not a magic cure-all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I'm more concerned with Mozilla spending its meager resources to chase some fads instead of focusing on improving firefox.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thats the problem tho, the new mozilla leadership is on the "do anything but nothing" ship. I really hope they either dont do anything too horrible or someone forks it if they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's been a huge waste of resources trying to reinvent everything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

there are already forks in place if you're dissatisfied with firefox like librewolf, floorp or the new one from mullvad