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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved over to Librewolf last night (except on android) due to this issue. I’m not even anti-AI, I just don’t care for the current mentality to put it into everything and using it as the entirety of your marketing schtick. I don’t need an AI web browser. I need a web browser that can navigate something like chatgpt’s web interface if I want it to.

  Librewolf has stated their intention to strip all ai elements from their fork of Firefox and that keeps me off of a chromium browser so I chalk this up as my personal best-case scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haunted videogame No Players Online resurrected on Steam after a disgruntled "former friend" had it exorcised via DMCA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Next week on As The Nerd Turns, watch as former friend steals all the game controllers and unplugs the snack machine.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About This Account reveals the scale of Twitter’s foreign troll problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until everyone reposting this hears about VPNs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨search engine megathread?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From Kagi:

  “Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-commercial, high-quality content.”

  “Our unique results combined from all of these sources help you discover the best content you can possibly find online, sometimes from the quieter places on the web.”

  I don’t know if I would simplify it to “Google on the backend” as it’s compiling from multiple sources, including their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨search engine megathread?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Kagi and really like it. It costs, but very little so it’s worth it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google has waited patiently for the moment at which they could start strangling their users without fear of ostracizing them and it's apparently arrived. Blocking ad blockers in YT, breaking sideloading apps in android, charging for storage after the forever-free model getting people to store everything with them, etc. I believe the average user feels moving would break too many elements of their daily life and will put up with anything Google does at this point.

  I'm definitely not what any true privacy-seeking person would call a diehard but I have pushed back where I can, choosing to try to find a way to keep from being impacted by these changes. Firefox, Freetube, CoMaps, personal mail, etc but it takes a decision to give up a ton of convenience that I feel a lot of people aren't willing to make.

  I'm waiting to see what the sideloading change brings before I decide where to go with my phone.