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Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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[–] Napain@lemmy.ml 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

didn't the Firefox management say they would focus on their core product rather than random little services like this

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually I thought there new ceo said they were going to fuck around with AI stuff.

Edit:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/?guccounter=1

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

At this point, I'm glad I switched to Mull on my phone. It took a bit of overcoming the resistance of using Firefox for decades (Stockholm syndrome), but I don't miss Firefox one bit.

Now I need to do that on my desktop, but I'm still shopping. Librewolf? Palemoon? Ice Weasel? What are folks here trying out these days?

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

Lots of love for librewolf here.

Strong fingerprint resistance breaks a lot of sites so just get used to disabling that on whatever sites.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On Android I am using Waterfox. Still looking for alternatives on desktop.

[–] fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Mullvad Browser is pretty good on desktop.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Mull basicslly Firefox since it's just a Firefox-based fork? The UI seems to be identical to me - don't notice any other differences on my phone

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yes, it's Firefox without the bullshit.

It's ironic that Firefox started the same way, actually.

When Netscape open sourced its browser and then fucked it up, some folks took the source code and built "Phoenix," much, much later becoming Firefox.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Mull basicslly Firefox since it's just a Firefox-based fork?

I don't understand why that would be a bad thing. If Firefox starts to enshittify then a fork from before the enshittification is exactly what I want.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

It's not - quite the contrary. I was just wondering what the commenter that I replied to meant when they said that it took them some getting used to. For me, it's just a slight change in design and a different icon

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah but to be fair they bought this years ago. Just took them forever to integrated. I suspect any changes in direction will truly show in 3-4 years, once the current backlog (no don't look at my company's Jira, TYVM! 😑 ) is cleared.