Technology

LibreWolf all the way

Firefox to evolve into not existing.

Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore

I like to imagine that these CEOs just get like a million AI emails a day from alt accounts of Sam Altman begging them to put AI in everything and they're all too stupud to realize it.

I said it before but they are really excelling at alienating their users in (failed) attempts at attracting new ones.

It pains me to see, I don't want to use chromium, but there is a limit...

Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:

1. https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/
2. Blog series: https://brave.com/series/security-privacy-in-agentic-browsing/

Gonna need a new default browser now.

Yeah this ain't it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won't be possible as Firefox enshittifies

Ok so where do I go? Waterfox?

I just found out about this on mobile firefox must be quite new too. That default opt in is really disgusting.

I'll consider using Mozilla once Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is fired or fucks off.

My decision has been rammed through in the exact same uncaring and unilateral way that Tony wants to ram AI down Mozilla users throats.

compare to vivaldi flat out refusing ai, keeping mv2, and actually building a blocker and tracker into the browser.

Well, older news is: "Firefox has evolved into the first thing I uninstall when I install Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that matter". Since the first mention of their so-called "anonymous telemetry" I began to actively avoid them. Like someone else mention, thank God for Librewolf, Mullvad and Brave (with Leo disabled).

how would this afffect the forked versions like Waterfox, LibreWolf, IronFox? The AI part is a separated feature from mainline Firefox branch, so forks can choose not to include it?

But why !? Chatbots are useful enough, I don't need AI anywhere else than when I explicitly choose to use it on my terms !

You wanna make money ? Make a chatbot that lies less and/or doesn't reinforce people into their delusions, or one that runs for cheaper, or both.

AI is useful. Just like knives are useful. Doesn't mean I want every object I own to also somehow be or contain multiple knives 😅

More often than not, a faster horse is actually all we need.

I've been using Firefox for longer than i can remember. That said, I'm ready to make the leap if necessary. What's the next browser to succeed Firefox? Suggestions??

Make sure you keep a list of all of these companies pushing ai bullshit. When the bubble pops, do not go back to them, do not give them anything, fuck them for being greedy idiots

I will gladly support initiatives that are anti-ai.

Hahaha fuck Firefox. Been saying it for years. Used to be the goat. Hasn't been for a decade and a half.