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[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 78 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Firefox is a good example of "either you die a hero or live long enoigh to see yourself become the villian"

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (20 children)

It's also an example of a smaller company trying fight a mega Corp with infinite money, gained via unethical means.

People are shitting on Firefox while ignoring what they are up against.

I have no solution for their funding issue, what are they supposed to do? Charge for the browser or ads? There's literally no other alternative and I don't know what the solution is.

What I do know is that once FF dies and chrome fully owns the web we are well and truly fucked.

Honesty it might already be too late.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (8 children)

How does adding AI help their funding?

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are we pretending that lots and lots of people aren't incredibly horny for AI right now?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actual users hate AI. Shareholders love it. It’s a bubble and the business world is trying to force it everywhere they can to create a dependency.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Yep. Make the normies depend on the shitty Ai and kill the real internet. Makes me so fucking mad.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Correction: power users, such as the type on Lemmy, trend towards hating ai. That is by no means “all users” by any stretch of the term.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nah, they've done studies and most people find it fucking annoying, worse, and don't want to pay any extra for it.

The whole thing is an obvious supply side economics push.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's really annoying when it's pushed in our faces everywhere. For getting a quick image of something you specify, or help with some boilerplate text it can be pretty neat.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Exactly.

People seem to think "if I don't do X, that means nobody does X"

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