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@firefoxwebdevs I think criticism towards Firefox is rarely (or should rarely be) aimed at the people doing the actual work. It's about leadership's decisions, resource allocation and vision.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

I like that Firefox is (through @jaffathecake) communicating. But the point is not really if you can disable the features TBH.

I think the problem is how Firefox/Mozilla is perceived: Putting a whole lot of resources into AI gambles (that the community does not seem to be too thrilled about to say the least) while seemingly losing all focus on the Open Web as something to work on, strengthen and defend. Especially with Google/Chrome's dominance.

The new CEO coming in and just hammering "AI" while never talking about how exactly those systems can only exist by harming the open web is a bad sign.

It's not so much about distrust of the engineers working on Firefox and them adding a switch or not. It's about a communicated vision that seemingly pushes aside all the things people want Firefox to exist for.

It's not that "the Internet" is worse or "enshittified" or whatnot. That's just clinging to the belief that the Internet is special and separate from the "real world".

The world is being made worse by capitalism in a massive way.

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @leitmedium 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

(I can 100% relate btw.

My new policy at work is that whenever people actively use LLM search engines to generate answers to questions emerging in the meeting, I am leaving said meeting instantly. I have no patience for that.)

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "

(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it will ever happen again."

(Original title: Petty, powerful, and pathologically online)

https://www.garbageday.email/p/petty-powerful-and-pathologically-online

@mcc yes, use "ip" (for example "ip address")

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."

https://aria.dog/barks/forklift-certified-license/