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[–] normalexit 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] Email 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

To summarize:

FF has been losing market share while hiking chairman salary.

Fediverse support and Mastodon are being discontinued in December.

Mozilla is hiring positions for ads and for AI (Which faces backlash for profiting off FOSS development).

Not so long ago users were also upset with the quiet addition of 'Website Advertising Preferences.'

[–] Scolding7300 3 points 3 months ago

Technically the graph endedon 2019, but it was a major loss until theb

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 1 points 2 months ago

They also recently added built-in AI chat support, which just gives you contextual “summarize this text” type of stuff on your right click menu. But still, it just goes to show that Mozilla is really leaning into AI.

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