There’s a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can’t dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better decisions than Chrome.
With that said, I didn’t want Pocket, I didn’t want AI, and I’m mildly annoyed that this sort of thing is in the default build. It feels like a windows installer asking you to install 10 additional programs, but the ticked boxes are greyed out. I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.
Firefox has been around long enough to have been both god tier and trash tier at different points. I don’t think the AI focus is going to go well for Mozilla. I’d like them to focus on browser stuff.
I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.
3 out of those 4 are not even a thing in firefox
Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?
Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.
Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.
Thundermail seems cool at least
Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent from the foundation due to individual donations.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/
as an encrypted email service.
You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.
What’s this about killing MDN?
In 2020 they fired the entire MDN writing team, slashed the budget, and basically left it in maintainance mode. The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit…
The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit
this would be a very good use of money, if the money actually reached the target audience
I’ve got no issues with helping people in need, but even if it’s not an embezzlement scheme, this is extremely bad prioritization unless their priority is publicity.
MDN is a proven resource that’s helped a lot of people learn to code. How many African translators can you hire for a milion a year, let alone like 8? How many more people would learn to code that way?l
But nah, let’s feed money into “partners” that use some experimental teaching methods, while destroying a crucial learning resource because corona made us broke.
Edit: fact checked myself and the corp killed MDN, and they’re paying the foundation to do projects like this through royalties.
firefox really shouldnt be our only line of defence for decent browser…
The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title.
The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.
Given the image,i wouldn’t be at all surprised if the article were just AI
Mozilla are perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves, thank you.
Here’s the original article from Mozilla instead of this third-party AI slop regurgitating it.
Was the image generated with copilot?
ai;dr
Holy shit that image… we need to destroy AI I’m sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web
Yes, I agree. Join us over on fuck_AI
Why would I join a fuck AI sub that every day I login is just gonna be like fuck it I fuck AI that just sounds like a complete mental drain no thank you.
because fuck “AI”.
ya no shit fuck ai, but I don’t need to subject myself to that every time I log in to here, get real dude, not all of us are here just to be angry all the time.
Fuck AI
To join the circlejerk? No thanks.
Every time I come across a post with the biggest “we hate everything” energy, it is one of fuck_AI.
Even blatant misinformation gets upvoted and shared. As long as it attacks AI.
Same vibe as the anti-Bieber crowd back in the day.
This is indeed a disturbing universe.
The image isn’t even used in the article, 100% it’s a ragebait tactic for clicks.
It has been right add the top of the page, it looks like they changed it.
Image? The entire site feels ai guided.
Almost as bad as people.
Fuck off with this AI bullshit
Not fair! Mozilla can self-sabotage without the help of Microslop, thank you very much!
Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?
I don’t think Microslop really needs to sabotage Firefox. Firefox is doing a really good job of shooting their own selves in the foot.
Ah yes, I’m sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against
