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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/email

fake news drama storm

Uh… No?

Proton’s CEO just hijacked the company account, wrote a bunch of stuff that said “Our team” at the beginning. Then he claimed he had accidentally used the wrong account and accidentally spoken for the entire team.

I could have been 100% on board with everything the CEO said, but then his rapid denial of obvious facts is a huge deal in itself. Proton’s entire existence exists upon being trustworthy, and if somebody’s going to clearly lie, trust gets broken fast.

YouTube memory leak issues allegedly fixed.

The phrase “cut off your own nose to spite your face” comes to mind.

the Oxen crypto token

Oxen is the company behind Session, for anybody unfamiliar. They were a crypto company that made (well, cloned) a messaging app to promote this token.

And Oxen itself was a clone of Monero.

It’s strange to me that one of the most popular requests on Mozilla Connect is Startpage as a default search engine, but Mozilla opted for Ecosia.

I have nothing against Ecosia in theory, but it’s notable that the company will only plant trees based on clicked advertisements, and the privacy policy isn’t quite as great as Mozilla has suggested in its promotional material.

October 24, 2024, around the time that Enhanced Visual Search is believed to have debuted.

I love it when surprise features get silently added, then discovered a couple months later. Makes you wonder exactly how easy it would be for Apple to start scanning for tons of other stuff in addition to landmarks, now that they’ve built out the infrastructure for it.

It’s really kind of them, too. Collecting data for all of your photos for free, holding a database of public places for free, scanning your photos against them for free, returning that day to you for free… They’re so generous!

Fennec worries me a little because the project failed to deliver crucial security updates for several weeks, which ironically caused people to hop to Mull.

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/86

Browsers are really in a state right now.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-car-camera-videos-employees-watching-1850307575

Thank goodness data collection companies would never sell or share data with each other

So we agree Mozilla only chose to promote Big Tech options.

The built-in AI staff [sic]… is… an accelerator to integrate with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLMs.

Users are only shown Big Tech “3rd-party” options. Mozilla made this choice intentionally.

Since Mozilla is clearly capable of developing an add-on that is not forcefully installed on user’s devices, they should remove the built-in thing that endorses the highly unethical chatbots run by Google, OpenAI, etc.

I appreciate the option to not install it.

Now if only Mozilla could migrate their built-in AI stuff to this optional extension so it doesn’t come pre-installed, that’d be great

Tell me, how many nannies shake their babies? You know, a good hard shake, like, like tryin’ to get ketchup out of a bottle. One percent? Less?

Funny, that. They sell a billion dollars worth of that shit worldwide. Goes to show you, doesn’t it? The bollocks people will believe if you get them scared enough.

Technically it’s a server operated by Google, leased by Mozilla. Mistral 7b could technically work locally, if Mozilla cared about doing such a thing.

I guess you can basically use the built-in AI chatbot functionality Mozilla rushed out the door, enable a secret setting, and use Mistral locally, but what a missed opportunity from the Privacy Browser Company

1. Firefox has recorded a drop in active users too.
2. Ex-CPO Steve Teixeira stood up to Mozilla laying off people in his department, even though it was turning a profit. Ex-CPO.

I agree that Mozilla should act like a non-profit, which is in contrast to people in this thread who say Mozilla should be ranked alongside for profit corporations. But I don’t see Mozilla practicing what they preach

Not all the people laid off by Mozilla Corporation thanks to their indecisiveness.

Corporations aren’t people

You missed their AI sidebar feature, which only feeds your data to corporations by default. Or their Orbit extension, which ditto. (The latter also points to the Mozilla FakeSpot privacy policy, which is clear about selling your browsing and location data to advertisers. No, I’m not joking. It’s not clear whether Orbit is FakeSpot adjacent…)

Fakespot itself is an AI powered Mozilla subsidiary that has a history dabbling with NFTs.

Mozilla has even dumped money into Hugging Face (a company that’s been given hundreds of millions from other corpos like Salesforce and Nvidia).