https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/please-listen-to-your-users/m-p/117574#M45984 <P>Firefox - a browser whos reputation is built on trust, privacy, and setting the agreed standards google refuses to touch.</P><P>For a generation firefox has been the browser of choice, the safe place.&nbsp; Now it's entering a chosen obsolescence by adopting dark UX practices and a clear irreverence for the community that built this.&nbsp; One dark UX example is AI is opted back in after almost every update!&nbsp; The lies from mozilla to the user is another issue.</P><P>Good for the C-suiters that can make a mint - BUUUUUUT when you have a browser with a minority user base, and you defy that base, well who will use this?</P><P>I mean, who uses privacy and standards focused browsers?&nbsp; It's IT professionals and IT savvy folk - who also are the ones that share/recommend/install on new systems for the non-savvy users!!!</P><P>The dumbness and tone-deafness of this is astounding.</P><P>This is a massive loss for the internet and FOSS as a whole.&nbsp; The only thing that makes it okay, is that there were some amazing payouts for the brave C-suite who decided to cash out at the expense of all mozillas current IP at the cost of so many.&nbsp; Good work!</P> Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:53:00 GMT SteamyHams 2026-02-07T13:53:00Z https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/please-listen-to-your-users/m-p/117574#M45984 <P>Firefox - a browser whos reputation is built on trust, privacy, and setting the agreed standards google refuses to touch.</P><P>For a generation firefox has been the browser of choice, the safe place.&nbsp; Now it's entering a chosen obsolescence by adopting dark UX practices and a clear irreverence for the community that built this.&nbsp; One dark UX example is AI is opted back in after almost every update!&nbsp; The lies from mozilla to the user is another issue.</P><P>Good for the C-suiters that can make a mint - BUUUUUUT when you have a browser with a minority user base, and you defy that base, well who will use this?</P><P>I mean, who uses privacy and standards focused browsers?&nbsp; It's IT professionals and IT savvy folk - who also are the ones that share/recommend/install on new systems for the non-savvy users!!!</P><P>The dumbness and tone-deafness of this is astounding.</P><P>This is a massive loss for the internet and FOSS as a whole.&nbsp; The only thing that makes it okay, is that there were some amazing payouts for the brave C-suite who decided to cash out at the expense of all mozillas current IP at the cost of so many.&nbsp; Good work!</P> Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:53:00 GMT https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/please-listen-to-your-users/m-p/117574#M45984 SteamyHams 2026-02-07T13:53:00Z