A quick reminder of a few things Mozilla/Firefox have done in the last *checks notes* ~year that I hope highlights that this is not a case of bad messaging but a consistent pattern of hostility:
- "Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
- "privacy preserving" Advertising telemetry enabled by default
- New T&C demanding a worldwide license (rolled back) & weakened privacy policy to support the above expansion (active)
- ""[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser"
@sarahjamielewis Not to mention the existing raft of AI features that are already added and can only be turned off with undocumented config settings:
- chatbot sidebar
- ai generated link previews
- ai generated image descriptions
- perplexity search provider
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