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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately the current leadership at Mozilla are also trying to pivot into being an advertisement and “AI” company smh. Hopefully they get back on track soon but rn it’s looking rough there

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I sincerely doubt it. Fundamentally, web advertising is nearing its biological limit - there’s only so much of people’s time you can colonize and direct towards profitable purchases. That tit has been sucked dry. Which is why tech giants are trying to move to a more direct kind of profiteering/rent seeking.

I’m not sure (though it could just be cope) that a sufficient bumber of people are going to take them up on it. OpenAI has sunk a truly ridiculous amount of wealth into the slop generator and I cannot imagine anyone but the most brain broken dipshits queuing up to pay like 50 a month to make it break even, let alone make a profit.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I switched to librewolf because of this.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like I'll be not updating my firefox

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Using an out of date browser is one of the worst things you can do security wise. You're better off switching to a fork like librewolf.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do extensions still work in forks?

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Not sure about the other forks but they work in LibreWolf.