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How about we remove it from the browser, and if you want it you can install it as an addon.

1. Keep taking money from Google
2. Stop giving it to random AI companies with no strings attached
3. Don't get into a discrimination lawsuit by firing a man with a medical condition, who was leading the only profitable department
4. Start taking donations for Firefox development

Mozilla only has finite time, money, and resources, so the impact of these features is a detriment to even the people who don't use them. Those resources could have been better budgeted.

For example, "image caption for the blind" sounds great, but do you know how worthless it actually is? For starters, you can't use it on any webpage...

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," says the government... As they hide cameras in trailers and construction barrels.

This appears to be illegal, and if laws still mattered in the United States, maybe somebody would get in trouble for it.

This seems like a golden opportunity for a lot of groups to rally behind James Cordero, though:

• Pro-life people have got to support a group called No More Deaths.
• Christians believe strongly that Christians should give food and water to the hungry and thirsty.
• Gavin Newsom seems like a cool guy, based on what I know about him (which is his Twitter presence and nothing more).

There are two interlinked Mozillas: the Mozilla Foundation is what you can donate to, but the Mozilla Corporation is what develops Firefox. No matter how much you donate, that money cannot (or will not) be transferred to Firefox development.

Mozilla's recent history includes privacy flub after financial management misstep, so here's a few links in no particular order of severity or chronology:

• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/
• https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
• https://smoshed.substack.com/p/ublock-origin-lite-maker-ends-firefox
• https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/07/crypto-wallet-security-layer-webacy-raises-4m
• https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/113162099798398758

Each of these are a little rabbit hole on their own.

Because Dennis is a bastard man!

That line is actually part of a very interesting change to the document.

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/commit/627dcb90bdd23ccfa2ae210d55b474ab4a844db0

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I vote for a universal shutdown for anyone who starts discussing harmful topics... But you're right, that is pretty unrealistic. Government regulation is either going to be non-existent, or based on non-existent dangers made up by AI CEOs

Isn't it great that other companies like OpenAI are actually worse in this respect? Sam Altman's tool guides teenagers through methods of committing suicide, and tells them to hide the evidence from their family.

And since every ChatGPT query, paid or not, costs OpenAI money... Sam Altman subsidizes this suicide encouragement.

Maybe the first step should be suspending a person's account. Regardless of whether they are above or below 18.

The translation is technically AI, but it's a distant cousin to the LLMs and image generators that have repulsed so many people. (The term AI is such a broad and vague umbrella that Netflix recommendations count as AI.) And, even more notably, this is before Mozilla started marketing things as AI.

It was also a joint non-profit venture with a university, rather than today's weird gimmicks or for-profit partnerships.

The most menacing thing in that picture is the bold red text, assuming it isn't Photoshopped that way. I've seen Firefox implement other dark patterns, including hiding the ability to disable ads from within the homepage... But this isn't really one of them.

It's also true that Mozilla only supports selected AI (and search) companies, presumably the ones that give them money. Users have been begging Mozilla for StartPage integration, but Mozilla gave them a Perplexity integration instead. Firefox initially supported local LLMs in their AI sidebar, but they hid that option early on. It definitely paints all their talk about "choice" in a bad light.