…as official extensions. I for one will not mourn the loss of all the Pocket stuff throughout the UI, but I respect the fact the Mozilla perhaps once thought it could be monetized to keep the company afloat. And I wonder what worse thing will end up on the default new tab page now, in order to recoup that lost revenue.
The appeal, to me, of Orbit was an AI summarizer with a limited scope, controlled by an organization I could trust. Much has been made about the recent alterations to the terms of service, but Mozilla Corp is still run by mostly the same people, and thus still inherently more trustworthy than a typical VC-funded AI company.
Firefox ditching Orbit and opening the floodgates to plug in with existing third-party providers instead is not the same thing, although I guess that's probably where the consumer demand is right now.
