The difference is that on Windows all unwanted features eventually become mandatory, with no way of switching them off. With Firefox, it never happens.

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Orygin 5 days ago | parent [-]

If you listen to the doomers in this thread, it will.

They "will" remove the option from settings, hide it in about:config, then later on remove it from there!

Of course none of that is true...

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Lord-Jobo 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

They already have hidden these in about:config!

Right click anywhere, (ask an AI chatbot) right there. Go to settings, search AI or search Chatbot, nothing.

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nottorp 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's plausible because the team working on the settings screen will be reassigned to the "AI".

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Orygin 5 days ago | parent [-]

That's just doom saying at this point.

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johnnyanmac 5 days ago | parent [-]

Mozilla hasn't had the benefit of the doubt for quite a while here. This isn't just one small kerfuffle coming out of nowhere.

They say trust takes a lifetime to build and seconds to break ". We're years into it at this point.

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fsflover 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Mozilla hasn't had the benefit of the doubt for quite a while here

In contrast to Google Chrome? This is just FUD. Ublock Origin is still working and will be working. Full customization is still there and isn't going away. All of that is unlike in Chrom(ium).

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nottorp 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is not a thread comparing Mozilla to Google. This is a thread where we worry about how a non google browsing alternative stays alive. Of course none of us posting here trusts Google.

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fsflover 5 days ago | parent [-]

> we worry about how a non google browsing alternative stays alive

> This is just FUD. Ublock Origin is still working and will be working. Full customization is still there and isn't going away.

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nottorp 4 days ago | parent [-]

> This is just FUD. Ublock Origin is still working

Correct.

> and will be working.

How do you know?

> Full customization is still there

Correct.

> and isn't going away.

How do you know?

How do you know this new "AI" CEO won't let both support for Manifest V2 and extensive settings rot because "AI can do it for you" for example?

Or as I said earlier, because they'll run out of money to pay for non "AI" features?

	▲	fsflover 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> How do you know? Extrapolation. Also, because it's FLOSS and can be modified by anyone.

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account42 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you need to compare yourself to the literal devil then you're probably far from a saint yourself.

	▲	fsflover 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		So what's the solution? Stay with the devil?