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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 months ago

Fuckkkkk.

Can Mozilla just fucking stop licking Google’s asshole for like 1 god damned week?

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

It's their biggest source of revenue, AFAIK.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

firefox lives and dies by google giving them money.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Why though, it could run as a stable project with little support outside volunteer and donations...which they ask for already.

[-] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

It's probably because non-profit execs are brainwashed by the promises of AI too. Also, Google has donated over $1 billion to Mozilla according to this website.

[-] lama@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Looks like right now it just blocks their AI features. Don't threaten me with a good time Mozilla. Though I do worry about it spreading in the future

The token is used to access Firefox’s server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, > Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla’s1 compute infra.

[-] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Last I knew, Google provided like 3/4 of their total revenue, so... Google unfortunately gets to call some shots. Only way to really fix that is to give them a substantial alternative income stream.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

or let them slip into obsolescence.

[-] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

And then your entire range of browser options becomes Chrome and a half dozen reskins of Chrome. I'm pretty sure a huge reason Google provides the funding is to avoid having Chrome branded a monopoly.

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

That would be worse.

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