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Mozilla's AI extension Orbit to shut down on June 26, 2025 (orbitbymozilla.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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Important Update: Orbit will shut down on June 26, 2025.
On June 26, you will no longer be able to use the Orbit extension. Thanks for supporting our journey.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm very okay with Mozilla killing this off, considering it had some janky behavior and had more outgoing data requests than was necessary. Initially, it pointed users to FakeSpot, as if it was using the same privacy policy and servers too.

It does explicitly use Google servers.

It was Yet Another AI Chatbot hosted on Yet Another Cloud Server, which is worse for privacy and longevity than anything that runs locally anyway.