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And where to?

If both noteworthy browser engines are made by companies who make decisions against their user's interest I might as well switch to the one with higher development budget.

The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.

And where does AI come into play here? It's not like a browser without AI doesn't work.

so asking us while FF wants to get NEW users

This is a balancing act and Mozilla behaves like an elefant in a porcelain shop right now. Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.

existing users will bitch and moan even if it's just one click

I'm one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?

very loud minority.

Please share your data that lead you to that conclusion.

They could do a survey amongst Firefox users about what they want.

But if the result is anti-AI they can't claim anymore that they weren't aware of their users opinions.

I hope people don't buy the story that the kill switch was part of the plan all along.

This is clearly the result of mozilla scrambling for a compromise after the backlash to their recent announcement.

The idea behind anubis is that a browser needs to deliver proof-of-work before accessing a website.

If you're doing it one-off with puppeteer, your "browser" will happily do just that.

But if you're scraping millions of websites, short challenges like this add up quickly and you'll end up wasting lots of compute on them. As long as scrapers decide that those websites are not worth it anubis works.

Have you tried to buy a non-smart TV recently?

There's a tool for that: https://anubis.techaro.lol/

Alternatively cloudflare also has scraper-protection offerings.

So it's opt-out. Great

But the other stuff is copywritten as well most of the time.

Just because it's free to look at doesn't mean it's free to download, modify or feed into an AI.

This is the definition of ethically sourced data from the Apertus website:

[...] the training corpus builds only on data which is publicly available.

So they still train on Websites, Blogs and Social Media. Ethical my ass.

Also if you want to learn you have to break your system.

OP wants to connect a Bluetooth keyboard and play games.

Messing around and breaking stuff in a well documented distro is great for learning, I agree. But that's not what OP was asking about.