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Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now? (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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where ‘absolutely not’ means ‘maybe later’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40irxnC_qM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251223-firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now - podcast

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[–] fnix@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Used FF for over a decade, switched to Vivaldi about a month ago. It's pretty much as the article says, adblocking not as good as FF+uBlock, but it mostly does the job, including YouTube videos. Note the inbuilt adblocker also works on mobile, tho there's no extension support there. One upside I discovered is that the performance is slightly better at least on my mid-range devices, the web is just built around Chrome-related browsers nowadays unfortunately. It's a bit feature-bloated for my taste with even an inbuilt browser-game (you can hide it from the menus), but honestly that's at least cute and more sincere than AI crap.