Yet another reason to stop using Chrome: Gemini is coming right into the browser, including the address bar ("Omni bar") by default. These features are computationally expensive at scale, privacy-destroying, and just plain annoying.
https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-reimagined-with-ai/
@mttaggart The friends of mine who care about invasive anti-privacy and not burning the planet down have already switched to Firefox, or some other non-Chromium-based browser. (Too bad there aren't many, and the ones that are, are basically Firefox forks.)
Unfortunately, I also have friends who are like "NBD, it's not like I'M doing anything worth invading." Or better yet a useless snarky answer like "I use a Chromebook, so I guess I'd better install Windows on it lol!"
We're in the worst timeline.
@derek fwiw, firefox on desktop also has ai features and they're enabled by default. dunno if you meant mobile exclusively
@derek aaaand they're coming to mobile:
https://www.engadget.com/ai/firefox-provides-ai-page-summaries-if-you-shake-your-iphone-145837557.html
@xyhhx @derek @mttaggart Firefox finally adds tab group and vertical tabs, but of course they have to pair it with AI chatbots and summaries. Makes me feel vindicated in my Vivaldi usage and recommendations. It’s wild how the “features” that attract users nowadays are the deliberate lack of a feature
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