16-12-2025 05:05 PM
it's been an extremely hostile environment online for people like me. i try to be a conscious consumer (as much as i wish i didn't have to "consume" anything), and i'm extremely critical of market trends and markets in general. i don't like AI. i don't use AI. i can't imagine a future where i will ever have to use AI. we've lived and thrived on this planet for maybe 2 million years depending on your definition of a human, and Some of us have been using AI for maybe upwards of 3 years, and it hasn't improved our lives in any noticeable way. it's made everything much more annoying and inconvenient and fake.
AI is a bubble, and a bubble that is close to bursting. it's a trend. i'm not a very smart guy, and even i can see that AI is a useless, harmful, stupid trend. i do Not want any more of these electricity-hogging resource-draining CPU-killing features being crammed into firefox because it's trendy for corporations to claim they're all about AI in 2025.
i started using firefox because i hate google. i'll stop using firefox because i hate ai. i'll use netscape navigator if i have to, and delete any trace of firefox from my computer if mozilla moves ahead with further AI implementation. call me a backwards luddite if you want to, i don't care. i won't kowtow to skynet.
16-12-2025 05:17 PM
Seconding this. I moved from Chrome to Firefox because of its privacy protections, and have only been happy to have made the switch when useful extensions were banned from Chrome (specially uBlock), and happier yet when Firefox didn't try to shove AI down my throat like the other browsers were doing to their own users. If Firefox keeps going this direction, I'll be the same level of happy to move away from another predatory browser.
16-12-2025 05:17 PM
it's not enough to uninstall. i use to enthusiastically endorse firefox, and mozilla. this is devastatingly stupid news. anthony enzor-demeo has ruined my perception of mozilla in a day. they spent decades building a reputation as being the ONLY viable browser. it's going to take decades to rebuild the trust i had.
i'm devastated. it's hard to overstate just how much mozilla stood out and how jarring of a realignment this is.
16-12-2025 06:40 PM
Agreed, even deciding to go forward with this as an optional feature has led to me cancelling my Mozilla VPN subscription and I suggest like-minded users who feel spurned by Mozilla's recent practices should follow a similar route and begin to seek out possible replacements