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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days ago

Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days ago
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Firefox is my web browser of choice. It does a lot of things right. In particular, with the uBlock Origin add-on, it’s got the best ad blocking you can get on desktop and Android. Firefox is run by…

where ‘absolutely not’ means ‘maybe later’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40irxnC_qM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251223-firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now - podcast

time: 9 min 39 sec

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    I used Floorp for a while. (The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100; nobody has a leg to stand on here.) It had a rare but persistent (and thus difficult to diagnose) problem of crashing my laptop hard when opening a private-mode window. Also, they’re planning to incorporate AI on an “opt-in” basis instead of rejecting it on moral grounds.

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      I only use software named after words that aren’t made up. That is, I don’t use software. I post here by waving copper wire at telephone poles to bit bash my way through the tubes.

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      The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100;

      And how did that work out in the long term? There were warning signs!

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      So thats a no on “Floorp” then. Good

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