It’s only gotten worse, far as I’m aware. Right wing grifters and crypto grifters.

Jitsi Meet would be the first one I think of.

Then there’s the “these people will never be happy” slippery slope line… after all of those changes, people celebrated and appreciated them and that was it.

It got to 48.5 for me. Yeah bit hot.

If he tries to block it, it will leak, and that’ll make them look even worse again

Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. And not replaced by AI. Replaced by other people. Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he’s bought the original Surface table from 2007, he’s been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.

In the near-term, a better idea might be to establish an alternative under a co-op model, like Subvert is trying to do for music as a Bandcamp successor. Vendors are part-owners of the entity and have input into its governance. Any code should be open source, too. Federation would be great to later help turn it into a truly resilient global platform.

Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.