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Typical anti-firefox FUD. These are all quite normal things to have in policies for CYA reasons to offer features. bUt mUh dATa!! 1!1!1!1!11 fuck off and live in a mountain, or use a almost useless obscure browser like Netsurf (that can't load 90% of the web)
so why weren't they in there before? moz's lawyers have obviously never thought they even need a policy before now, so what changed?
Because they're going to offer optional AI integration in the browser
Look, we are in the minority. Lemmy has like, what, some thousands of users at best. Most people want features like AI, and firefox has to offer them to gain users instead of bleeding like a stuck pig as they're doing now
And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I'm tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who've never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci
Do you think sucking dick is a bad thing?
Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don't use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don't upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.
Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer
That's just not true.
as someone who runs local inference all the time, i think that centralized online models have no place anywhere near consumers. partly because the things they offer are trivial and offload critical skills, partly because they require insane amounts of energy, and partly because they are privacy nightmares. all things that are against moz's stated mission. and yet here we are.