Gregory's ServerThat's bold, Mozilla, given that 100% of the unwanted AI that I've had pushed on me in the past two weeks has been from you.
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 @xgranade also there's a big difference between Mozilla and Mozilla (the company and the foundation)... It's quite the clusterfuck and I'd love for them to change one of the names. Why not rename the company hammershark ? They're as dense as a sledgehammer :blob_cat_giggle:    @tseitr oh, don't you worry, in five, maybe three years we'll all be paying to not have llm all over our phones, computers, searches, services' answering machines, etc., etc. like with ads today ;-) @kaspa @xgranade @mozilla It's not so much that I hate them, it's more that they've lost my trust. It started way back when they forced DNS over HTTP (DoH) on everyone as a default, funneling all my DNS requests to cloudflare, of all people. Cloudflare, who actively support nazi's, getting access to my browing history, and calling that a 'privacy feature'? Come on. Just, no. It's all gone downhill from there, with trust-eroding feature after trust-eroding feature.  @xgranade Since I am not a dumbass, I know that it doesn't actually take $400,000,000 a year to develop a web browser. So since Mozilla gets at least that much EVERY FUCKING YEAR from one source out of the many they have available, why are they now asking for donations from me? Perhaps it is time to get back to developing a web browser, rather than other things that aren't web browsers that you wish to stuff in my web browser in order to monetize me?  @vadhakara It turns out, making a web browser is more complicated than you would think.* I doubt it costs $400,000,000, as you point out, but there's a reason there's so little competition in the market. * Looking at the HTML5 spec, I can't escape the conclusion that this is by design.  Maybe the person sending that doesn't know what the rest of the people working there do (nor use Firefox) 🤷
  @xgranade when a shitty adtech company masquerades as defenders of the intertubes and pulls a {Wikipedia,Brave,Protonmail,Tutanota,Signal} the grifts never end  Mozilla is an ad company, not a charity. You wouldn’t give donations to Facebook or Google “to keep the free Internet,” would you?
@xgranade If they promised to immediately stop doing AI and all the advertising and tracking bullshit I would probably send them $100 but alas there is no way to get there from here  @xgranade hmm maybe if they actually paid their engineers instead of laying them off to give the CEO an ever-increasing salary... maybe that would help their finances :neofox_googly: @xgranade This, plus their so-called „privacy-preserving“ ad tracking they activated by default a few months ago. #Mozilla needs to eject the tech bros from any decision-making positions.  @xgranade it's like giving weapons and training to the Taliban so you can fight them a generation later |
(That is, of course, an artifact of me self-hosting everything that I can, using domain-level ad blocking for the rest, and in general living mostly off the digital map.)