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Eh, I'm not about to stop using Firefox, but the complaint is valid. They nuked a bunch of work from volunteers without notice in favor of shitty auto translate.

I'd say that's because here on Lemmy, we already don't give a fuck about and wouldn't touch Chrome or Edge with a ten foot pole, but some of us trusted Mozzila, which is now starting to do dumb AI shit. And having your trust broken hurts.

Astroturfing would not be recommending LibreWolf as an alternative.

If you look into alternatives, Brave is one that's usually mentioned but there's always someone quickly posting all of the dumb shit they did.

Yeah, I am astroturfing. It can't be that I actually believed Mozilla when they said that localizers were heroic.

The way they are forcing AI on everyone and into every aspect of their browser especially when a large part of the people who use Firefox hates that shit is going to end Firefox.

The reason you don't hear it about all those other browsers is because people have always known they don't give a fuck what the end user wants.

Firefox used to be different. But all good things deteriorate over time. Watching it happen in real time to a browser we all use and used to love is why you see it so much posted especially in places with like minded individuals like Lemmy.

Almost all Microsoft KB articles are machine translated.
Every time I open a reddit article from a search it attempts to auto-translate which immediately looks and reads very inhuman.

What an odd comparison. What differentiates Mozilla from others is their close relationship with their community. Just read their manifest and you will see Immediately why they are getting flag for humiliating their own supporters.

Put it this way, I don't trust a corpo browser and never have. 2008 or whenever it was that everyone switched to Chrome, I stayed with Firefox, which I'd been using for a few years already. I remember upgrading to Firefox 2.0.

I'm interested when Firefox is pulling this shit and don't give a fuck otherwise, because I already assume the others do this.

Idk if we'll ever get anything decent out of the Servo browser engine. That would be ideal IMO. Mozilla is starting to become part of the problem.

Calling objections to what some unelected jerks in the foundation (which is a supposedly public organization) are doing is not "anti-Mozilla". And I would first suspect of astroturfing everyone pretending it is.

Raising voices and putting pressure about things spoiling something is caring about it. And yes, people who care try to make real effect and not just safely complain to be ignored.

Mozilla honestly has been becoming worse and worse since Australis.

If I had to post an article here for each time Chrome did something that worked against privacy, I would just repost Ggle's changelogs. And they would not change.

If we criticise Mozilla harshly enough, there's a chance slightly higher than an snowball's chance in hell to make them change.

But this is not about Firefox delelopment, but about community getting overthrown for apparently no reason.

that tonedeaf response of the mozilla staff boils my blood. holy fuck. i hate mozilla so much for years already but in recent times it got so much worse. cant wait to switch to ladybird or other alternatives in the future.

Try to make AI useful, of course.

Mozilla is funded mostly by Google

Not terrible idea? Did you heard about ai japanase localization disaster?

That's not always great either though because if the AI miss-localizes things, end users in that language wont even know that their documentation is incorrect. Better to have incomplete than wrong documentation. At least then the end user will know they have to try to read a different language. It might be good to use AI to create an unpublished first draft that is then polished by a person before publishing, though it seems the AI is not good enough to be useful in that manner.

It's just going to line the pockets of executives.

They have the money. They choose not to spend it.

That depends on your understanting of "professional". Firefox has forks out here, LibreWolf for example, that removes the AI "features" and other bullshit that crept inside vanilla Firefox

It is going to happen to all locales, not just Japan. The Japan locale leader was just a canary in the coalmine.

I still use Firefox every day, but I don't trust the corporate overlords to do what's right long term. They seem to be getting greedy instead of listening to the user base. They've started including AI bullshit features for the sake of it, like grouping tabs by content that nobody asked for and that barely works for me. I'm not anti-Mozilla, but I sure am weary of it and would welcome an alternative.

I haven't come across any open source comments, but those seem pretty clueless.

Is it anti Firefox progranda to literally criticize them for reopening human contributed content with lesser quality AI generated one?

Your response to that criticism is to bring up another topic (Firefox being open source) and calling everyone idiots?

Brave's marketing team has been running anti firefox campaigns for years now. That's why now we have so many retards like OP throwing a big boy tantrum every time firefox does something. Maybe mozilla should add some kind of shitcoin to firefox just to make all these wankers happy.