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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (www.neowin.net)
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[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 100 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TBH despite I don't like this specific idea, nor use Firefox directly, I do like the usage of local inference vs sending your data to thirdparty to do AI.

They just needed to do it OPT IN, not OPT OUT.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is though.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

then why the fuck is this newsworthy? ugh. Why is there such a huge hateboner for firefox lately?

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

I really don't get it either.

It's not like it's a paid product either.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

A lot of people would rather sit around and tear down the progress being made around them for being imperfect, than pitch in to help change things for the better.

[–] piefood@feddit.online -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

[–] piefood@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Money for their executives

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the "recommended pages"? Because yeah that is a revenue source I guess, but as long as I can turn it off I can let it slide

[–] piefood@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They get money from Google, advertisements, and selling data. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, why would you think that? Of course they do

[–] piefood@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the "recommended pages"?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They got no gains from that only lost users

[–] piefood@feddit.online 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They got a lot of money by selling out their users. They are still getting a lot of money by selling out their users.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 2 weeks ago

So money are gains? Just a slang? I thought you meant income