Yes we need them to survive,
yes they’re better than Google.

But no we’re not being too negative/hard on them!

Lately Mozilla has been pulling a lot of anti-consumer yet pro shareholder shit.

AI is a perfect example of that,
unwanted by the majority of their community, yet still forced upon us by shareholders, for now through an optional addon, which appears to be a foot in the door, which can quickly grow into a baked in addon which ships with FireFox by default.

Sources:

• Mozilla asked the community their opinion about AI, the general response was NO:
  https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519
• Mozilla pushed a poll, tailored by shareholders in such a way that the results would appear that we still want AI:
  https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100
  Yet in the Lemmy comments about the poll,
  again you can see that the general consensus is no:
  https://lemmy.one/post/21332325

They blatantly ignore their community,
and for that we’re allowed to be angry with them.

This post assumes I actually want to waste my time on LLMs, I don’t.

And even worse, it assumes you want to use the remotely hosted spy-ware variant, not even the less bad, but still a waste of time local variant…