I just saw someone unironically write that they do not trust Firefox because they do not trust a browser paid by google to include AI slop features, and that’s why they prefer Chrome.

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@erkhyan I'm dumber for having read this.

[ripp_@chitter.xyz]

@erkhyan god kill me now

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@erkhyan at least Firefox now has an off switch, after latest updates, if you don't want to take the tiny step to waterfox or librewolf, which are both firefox without the AI scrapcode

Chromes won't help you like that

[angelofalls@mastodon.art]

@erkhyan No way! xD

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@erkhyan wh—

[frela@tech.lgbt]

@patterfloof @erkhyan Waterfox is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Firefox, been recommending it to non-technical friends and they had no problems at all. I think it eben supports Firefox Sync with no problems.

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@frela @erkhyan yeah, it's that simple. install Waterfox & it is entirely the same to use

they even have an android app, which is nice

[catgoat@meemu.org]

@erkhyan this made my entire brain skip a moment and make a record scratch noise

[curtmack@floss.social]

@erkhyan "I don't trust the foxes running the henhouse, and that's why I moved to the fox's den."

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@erkhyan
I mean, Mozilla stated publicly that they were confused at the concept of "consent" when people asked them not to put AI in their products. That might be a reason to put a pause on trust... How much better are the new user agreements for Firefox than chromium now that they are selling our data? (Honest question, i don't know) How will they change in the future? There is a trend now

I like Vivaldi (it's chromium)
I also like Water Fox but i think they're riding a sinking codebase.

So the way i see it, i choose the system that ruined Firefox or i stay with a ruined Firefox, and I'm not looking to be a martyr for my browser politics (i am doing that for too many other things already)

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@erkhyan And what's why you don't expect a Chrome user's logic to make sense

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@erkhyan You don't know what you don't know... I hope you explained it kindly

[whyrl@furry.engineer]

@erkhyan @soatok "No credible browser would ship with AI slop features without also including spyware, and that's why I prefer Chrome!"

[csalem@mastodon.social]

@erkhyan this is so stupid the word stupid just committed suicide.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@erkhyan

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[ethicalprofessor@mstdn.social]

@erkhyan

"I can hear the Cuckoo singing in the Cuckoo-Berry tree."

[itseperkele@expressional.social]

@erkhyan Next time suggest Librewolf to them. Not paid by google and no AI slop included.

As a bonus, uBlock is built in and other privacy goodies!

[deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr]

@erkhyan someone should tell them

[thomasjwebb@mastodon.social]

@erkhyan I see this cognitive distortion a lot. People don't back up and compare with a baseline, they just fuzzily judge based on how frequently they see a conversation happening, causing them to get things exactly backwards. I don't know what to do about it!

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@erkhyan I mean...it's not...it's not *wrong*

Google does not, in fact, pay themselves* to put AI in Chrome

*Actually, depending on how Alphabet does their internal accounting, they very well could be paying themselves to put AI in Chrome