every time I see someone going "I finally ditched #firefox and went with this closed source chromium based alternative instead"

all I can think of is

@anthropy I agree with you, and I am also staying on Firefox, but I understand some people moving on. Governance also matters.
@jsoriano oh I'm definitely not blaming people for finding alternatives, I just think that people aren't considering their alternatives carefully enough-- which to be fair, is hard, because there aren't a lot of good ones. This is exactly why I'm funding Servo

@jsoriano but, I also ironically kind of get where Mozilla comes from.

If you want to do proper opensource AI with datasets that aren't made of plagiarism and code from questionable sources, there's basically nothing there.

Guess who IS working on that though? Mozilla.

So as much as I REALLY REALLY wish they'd stop putting it in their browser, I don't hate that they're working on AI in itself, because the way they did that wasn't bad so far, AFAIK.

@anthropy @jsoriano I'm pretty glad to have AI in firefox, for example the local translation feature, which is a huge privacy win.
@modulux @anthropy @jsoriano Agreed about the local translation feature. It is one of those more ethical uses of the technology, and helps a lot when ending up to websites with languages I can't understand directly.