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Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

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.