moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains batterywww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareMika@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoTBH despite I don’t like this specific idea, nor use Firefox directly, I do like the usage of local inference vs sending your data to thirdparty to do AI. They just needed to do it OPT IN, not OPT OUT.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agothen why the fuck is this newsworthy? ugh. Why is there such a huge hateboner for firefox lately?
minus-squarealsimoneau@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI really don’t get it either. It’s not like it’s a paid product either.
minus-squarepiefood@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoBecause they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.
minus-squareKeenFlame@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWhat is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?
minus-squarepiefood@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoMoney for their executives
TBH despite I don’t like this specific idea, nor use Firefox directly, I do like the usage of local inference vs sending your data to thirdparty to do AI.
They just needed to do it OPT IN, not OPT OUT.
It is though.
then why the fuck is this newsworthy? ugh. Why is there such a huge hateboner for firefox lately?
I really don’t get it either.
It’s not like it’s a paid product either.
Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.
What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?
Money for their executives