Not cool: I mainly use Firefox, but keep Vivaldi around for sites that only work with Blink/Chrome-based browsers.
I hadn't opened Vivaldi in a while, and it had updated since the last time. I have my start page set to blank/empty - and when I opened it there were two big sponsored speed-dial entries shown.
I have always had all sponsored/suggested/etc features turned off.
Bad #Vivaldi.
If you follow #Firefox news at all, you will have seen the recent announcement of Mozilla's new CEO. And being a Fediverse denizen, you probably experienced a wave of disgust, nausea, betrayal, anger, and / or shame, because the new idiot is all-in on "AI" / LLM integration in Firefox.
The best brief summary of the announcement I've seen is this:
https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115730935437271047
If you prefer your hot takes a little saltier, this is another entry in the apparently unending series of self-inflicted injuries:
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115732207063445044
As others have noted, it's one of the clearest examples of a company getting their own customers' wants completely ass-backwards ever seen. And that includes topping all the "AI" announcements #Mozilla has made over the last couple of years, so it's really saying something.
There are community/volunteer #forks of Firefox that remove the #LLM #junk, but many people, including me, don't believe that's a particularly #sustainable model.
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#browser #community #independent #NoAI #NobodyWants #AntiFeature
Mozilla has a new CEO who: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.
Oh, yeah, Feeld has been busy implementing new features, or maybe I should say new *anti*-features.
One of these anti-features is the hidden bio. You can hide a portion of your bio behind a button that people have to tap onto to reveal. They can tap onto it if they match with you.
You do you, but I'd advise against using it. I saw a person, who at first glance I appeared compatible with, but their bio was entirely hidden. 😕 To me, that's the same as not having any bio at all. I pass on those folks who cannot be bothered to write a bio. I passed on this person.
Even if the entire bio is not hidden, I've got to wonder. What is it that you have in there that you think needs to be said *there*, but that you DO NOT want people to see??? A hidden bio is a yellow flag. If only a small part is hidden, I don't automatically pass, but it does make me lean towards passing.
As far as I see it, the hidden bio is entirely unnecessary. Either, you can just plainly say what you need to say. (And the users on Feeld are not particularly shy about saying what they need to say.) Or, you can reveal its content in chat.
As I said, that's an anti-feature.
IMHO The whole implementation of #YouTube auto-#translate is a #trashfire.
1) 🗑️ The quality is just trash; the meaning is soo often butchered, it's embarrassing.
2) 😡 It's a forced feature, no way of disabling. Changing language doesn't help cuz YT will just force-translate to THAT language. 🤦
3) 😕 YT shows ZERO indication the title was auto-translated. No, "Auto-dubbed" doesn't count, that's something different.
Classic example of an #AntiFeature in #proprietary software.
Pour la #SNCF, je pense que c'est une #antifeature. Si je me trouve une correspondance qu'ils ne vendent pas, ils refusent que je l’achète en 1 seul coup pour que j'aie moins de chances d'avoir des droits en cas de pb.
En l’occurrence, #TGV Inoui + TGV Inoui, avec une correspondance... de 1h, plus longue que celle que la SNCF propose. Ben oui mais il affiche complet celui que la SNCF propose !! 🙄
I think there should be a "boost for everyone except [x person]".
It would make me feel like a monarch of yore, choosing to spare exactly one (1) of my followers from the psychic damage of a particular pun or post.
Bonus points if it's a russian roulette: you choose 3 people and one of those will be spared your most recent attempt at humor.
#AntiFeature I just think it would help no one so I think it should be implemented asap, to no one's satisfaction 
Good news, everybody! [1]
#Patreon has now added a new useless "#suggestions" widget to my timeline, and probably yours too! It tries to get me to sign up for more creators and pay them more money, without actually having a clue what I want to see!
It's another case of a company trying to jam junk down your throat to goose their "engagement" metrics. Somebody probably got a #raise or even a #promotion for nursing this #antifeature through the pipeline. I hope they have to drink themselves to sleep because of it.
It's clutter, and it pisses me off because it's just one more thing making it harder to actually see the #content I'm #paying for. Never mind the fact that adding un-skippable #advertising to a service I pay for every month is driving me awfully close to just shutting my Patreon account.
Remember, Advertising Shits In Your Head.
[1] Not actually good news.
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