What's up with the AI slop image for this post?
Also, Mozilla is destroying Firefox by themselves, they don't need help from m$
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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The only thing destroying Firefox is Mozilla themselves.
Firefox makes a good fork base anyway
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 had an ad in my Firefox settings for "Solo AI Website Creator". It's a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it's not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).
I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don't want.
I meeeean…. I kinda agree with you, but where exactly do you expect funding to come from? “Focus only on the browser. That they make no money off. Also stop accepting money from Google.”
Like I get it to an extent, it would be nice. But how exactly is “make no money” a viable business plan?
That's fair. I wouldn't reject money from Google but instead build up an endowment with it for when it eventually disappears. If you can recover your market share (maybe by investing in your browser - the peformance is lagging) then you can also demand more money from Google to set them as default. Finally, Mozilla is a non-profit and I wouldn't be opposed to them just asking for donations, like most non-profits.
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
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
This is indeed a disturbing universe.
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
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Image? The entire site feels ai guided.
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.
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ai;dr
oh wow. someone's actually using this.
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
Fuck off with this AI bullshit
Mozilla are perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves, thank you.
Was the image generated with copilot?
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.
I don't get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives.
It's obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it's all the same.
Its the best we have, given that our standart of "good" is privacy and open-source etc. Otherwise Firefox is just not a great browser. Especially on mobile. And Mozilla keeps making it kinda worse for privacy bit by bit. There isnt really any reason for someone who doesnt care about privacy to usw firefox.
I'll agree that their mobile experience is not great, they don't support tablet layouts for example, but it still has the best support for ad blocking. I consider that essential for the modern internet.
My big concern is that we're repeating the Internet Explorer issue all over again, where the web is coded for it instead of standards. Now Google has the ability to strong arm the Internet by not adopting standards, pushing their preferences, etc. Web sites are being coded coded to run on better on Blink than Gecko so it gets worse all the time. If we give up on Mozilla the Internet will fall even further into the hands of big tech.
Nah, mozilla sabotaged firefox.
Por qué no los dos.
I just came to watch the people angry about the cover image.
They get very loud and really don't shut up, do they? Gotta just scream 24/7 about how much they hate it.
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Mozilla could have had a foothold but they literally added AI into Firefox, so idk how far they're gonna get.
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Ah yes, I'm sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against
Not fair! Mozilla can self-sabotage without the help of Microslop, thank you very much!
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