Well, this is forking intolerable.
#Firefox is officially #enshittified.
It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.
Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.
Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.
I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.
Up to now, with all LLM things that Mozilla has done, you can just turn them off. I just shrug and turn them off
How is it in this case?
Can you turn this feature off, if so where?
You do realize that because Google literally funds Mozilla, they will keep doing these bad things, opting in users without permission
Maybe you should not use anything that the Mozilla makes anymore, otherwise you will just be annoyed and disappointed Time after Time. The Mozilla team is literally choked by Google, financially choked.
Wishing for their destruction is deeply emotional
These annoyances disappointments & irritations are not good for your health, my internet friend.
IMHO you should leave all Mozilla products behind, then be in Peace again.
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What codebase is the Vivaldi browser based upon?
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@squalouJenkins @dendrobatus_azureus @keydelk @yoasif
Yes, it's the Blink (Chromium) backend with a custom proprietary UI.
@keydelk @squalouJenkins @dendrobatus_azureus @yoasif
WebKit is a pretty big chunk, though, thanks to iOS.
Thunderbird next?
Based upon the track record of Mozilla it's just a question of time before the programmers find a way of integrating large language model slop into the beautiful and elegant Thunderbird
Look closely; every time Mozilla is begging for money when you start up Thunderbird after 2 or 3 days of not having used it. It's annoying I haven't looked for a way to turn it off I stopped being annoyed about it after having faced it for sixteen times
This happens cross platform which means it is baked and hard coded into Thunderbird
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@dendrobatus_azureus @Cosmosis @rl_dane
Thunderbird is largely independent since 2012.
@matsuzine @dendrobatus_azureus @Cosmosis
They were more independent until a few years ago, but getting re-absorbed into the Mozilla family actually brought a lot of funding and made it a lot better in the past five years or so.
But they still have their own management separate from the ridiculous corporate-FOMO-chasers at Mozilla's helm.
@dendrobatus_azureus @Cosmosis
I honestly respect direct appeals for funding way more than ads or AI slop.
I detest the way they do it; begging almost every time I start the Thunderbird program
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@Cosmosis @dendrobatus_azureus
Thunderbird is managed by MZLA, Inc. (IIRC), rather than "Big Mozilla," and they seem actually sane.
> How is it in this case?Can you turn this feature off, if so where?
Oh, you can, and I did. I was just extremely aggravated that they somehow turned it back on. I'm guessing it gets turned back on every time there's an update, but I'll test that carefully the next time.
> You do realize that because Google literally funds Mozilla, they will keep doing these bad things, opting in users without permission
Honestly, Mozilla doing bad things is ironically borne out of a desire to get out from under Google's thumb. They recognized that they're ~85+% funded by not only their direct competitor, but one of the top three villains of the internet age, and they want to find alternate streams of funding.
Unfortunately, the way they are seeking those alternate streams of funding is the most broken, brain-dead silicon valley ways, by alienating their users.
> Maybe you should not use anything that the Mozilla makes anymore, otherwise you will just be annoyed and disappointed Time after Time. The Mozilla team is literally choked by Google, financially choked.
I'm leaning more and more towards that decision, but Gecko-based browsers are currently the only viable option that I feel comfortable with. It's interesting to note that I don't have any gripes with #Thunderbird, which is managed by a different entity beneath the Mozilla umbrella, and they seem actually... SANE.
> Wishing for their destruction is deeply emotional
Indeed. It was a spicy take. I would rather with that they return to the values that founded them, but I'm not holding my breath.
> These annoyances disappointments & irritations are not good for your health, my internet friend.
Yeah. So many things to be angry about these days. Definitely not good for me.
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