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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (3 children)

uggggggggggh. I'm using Firefox because chrome is really going too far with it's manifest v3 garbage killing decent adblockere and Firefox is basically the only non chromium based option. Please for the love of everything that is holy. Just. Make. Your. Browser. Better. Don't need ai gimmicks. Definitely don't need to lay people off. You need to get back on track. Holy heck. This is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

AI will be great for translation of webpages locally instead of sending content over the wire

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can get behind this if everything is processed locally. Let my computer do the computing and stop harvesting my data, internet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Firefox already has that as a built-in feature on desktop version.

[–] idefix 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the only use case is translation, that's probably not a good business case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's not the only use case. It could read a 400 page pdf locally and summarize it for you, answer questions and find which slide the data you want is on.

The use cases are only limited by how powerful the AI is

[–] jaemo 11 points 9 months ago

My brother, I weep with you and agree with angrily gritted teeth at all your words.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

its* manifest v3 garbage.