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Cake day: November 8th, 2023

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  • Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about… Themselves.

    Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that’s a different story for a different day



  • News feeds seem to be a symptom of enshittifiaction. At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.

    Remember Google Now, that “homepage for you” on Android that showed you the weather, reminders, calendar events, etc… But eventually Google removed all the functionality and replaced it with an infinite feed of news slop.

    Slop. Feed. Rather synonymous.




  • 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.



  • 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.