Mozilla right now.

@dregntael @davidrevoy I don't know if it's the best thing out there, but I've had decent luck so far with Waterfox.

@ocramius @davidrevoy Hope is one thing, but we're not worried about whether they *will* do the wrong thing in the future. They've already done it. We've been watching them do the wrong thing in real time ever since they put AI "help" in MDN, and since then they've done nothing but lean further into AI hype and dismiss any criticism.

This is what happens when your "nonprofit" gets all its money from its for-profit subsidiary. Investors love AI. Doesn't matter that they're the only ones.

@Kampfdiestel
In FF 145.0.1, just right-click anywhere, in the menue item "AI shit" i had "disable AI"
@Gynux @davidrevoy

@davidrevoy Yep. As a user since before it was Firefox, it’s totally disappointing.

And another in a long line decisions messing around with the frills while not dealing with the core product.

@coldfish @davidrevoy
If you're gonna use anything Chromium-based, stick to something barebones, like ungoogled.

Given that Brave's queerphobic CEO was actually the co-founder of Mozilla (EDIT: noticed somebody in the replies already pointed that out in some way or form), you could argue he's basically everything that's wrong with current day Mozilla but multiplied by two.

@CosmicHorror @wizzwizz4 @coldfish @davidrevoy 11 days. He had donated money to the campaign for Prop 8, a 2008 California referendum to ban same-sex marriage https://www.kqed.org/news/131545/mozilla-ceo-resigns-over-donation-to-prop-8-campaign

@davidrevoy Pretty sure they know they're alienating their core users, hoping to get a larger group of less privacy-savvy users.

@elgregor @davidrevoy Firefox offline translation is great. But it is absolutely not what they are marketing as "AI". At no point in time they advertised this as AI. So yeah, it's great, and it's not what they mean by adding AI. They have been advertising "ethical AI" since almost 10 years, and there zero thing to show except 35 millions spent on proprietary AI startups.

@adra Thank you!

To be fair, I could paint this one quickly because I only painted the fox and the parrot over a scene that I had already painted for Reddit when they had their API change controversy back in June 2023. The artwork is hosted somewhere in this directory: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/misc.html

@bohwaz @davidrevoy Many people (correctly) refer to this kind of features as "AI" and so do various news outlets. I have seen multiple people upset at local models and asking how to delete them. I have seen people advertise Firefox derivatives that remove the local models with the lack of those models described as a feature. I believe this mostly stems from misinformation and this is why I will keep explaining that "AI" is a very broad term that includes good things as well as bad things.

@julienw
Seeing how the AI crap already in Firefox is enabled by default and has to be disabled in about:config, no, it does not reduce my concern.
Start with opt-in for the already integrated AI crap and an easy way to disable it.

@pmiossec @Kampfdiestel @Gynux @davidrevoy

@davidrevoy very accurate.

@davidrevoy
Brilliant

@coldfish @davidrevoy
https://mastodon.social/@utf_7/115742616343666373

@davidrevoy

I love this. One question, is the bird a mascot for something or just a robot bird?

@davidrevoy @jargoggles This is so accurate

@davidrevoy This looks so beautiful for commentary on tech!

@davidrevoy sorry how you mean ?

@davidrevoy @adra

I think I found it - https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-06-12_Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr_by-David-Revoy.html

@resplendent606 the bird represents AI/LLM in all of the recent drawings ("stochastic parrots")