Almost reads like FUD targeted at game executives TBH

You think that identifying dark patterns that are literally designed by psychologists to be as addictive as possible is moral panic?

Play-by-appointment is the gateway to all the other anti features, and not being about to focus on studying because you’re worried about your dailies shouldn’t be something 12 year olds (or anyone, really) are exposed to

8gb of RAM is completely unserviceable. A browser and 2 electron apps will have you suffering.

hammering Wikipedia’s servers and using it as a training ground.

They could just efficiently download the freely available archive instead of being assholes but nooo

I don’t like gaps, included rounded corners. Let me use all my screen space dammit

dislike having to click twice

Settings –> customize -> toolbar layout -> expanded

People don’t already know (check the thread you’re in)

If you can say that about one thing you can say it about anything, including your first comment I replied to, which heavily implied valve is to credit for everything even though a large share of the work over the years has been done by passionate people for no compensation.

2. Valve is doing something wrong, and/or 3) They are somehow at fault for something, like stolen valor or not giving credit where credit is due.

Nope, was only adding a little context, because though you claim everyone viewing this thread would already know, I’m sure you’re incorrect.

And this comment is why I feel I have to say it. Credit where credit is due, but being this bristly over someone pointing out that the contributions of the open source community aren’t the work of valve and valve alone is ridiculous

Valve is turning the entire ARM ecosystem on its end by building out an entire suite of tools to make an emulation layer

A bit pedantic but I think it’s worth noting that valve is only funding things that already exist and integrating them into their ecosystem rather than creating them from scratch

And this is why the “online advertising ecosystem” should not be allowed to exist

If amnezia is sus they probably added mullvad to lend credibility to the overall statement

Can’t lose what you never had

If you don’t want to discuss something just don’t respond lol

I’m out. There is no point taking with someone that repeatedly lies to try to support their point. Look, I’m against the majority of LLM usage and implementation as well, and I’d rather most of it not be in firefox as well, but:

1. You keep making up things firefox does that it doesn’t. I’m not even convinced you’ve used it
2. You keep talking about UX and dark patterns but you’re obviously making it to as you go
3. Basing conversation on obvious falsehoods is a waste of time

It looks like this page has links, you can summarize them using a clanker” on a frequent basis.

That doesn’t happen. I don’t recall firefox ever popping up a modal while I’m browsing.

And the fact that the confirmation feels “menacing” and defaulted to cancelling the opting-off (i.e. pressing “esc” or clicking outside the window; one must click the primary-colored “block” button which, contrasted to a grayish “Cancel” button, may psychologically induce the user into thinking “block” is a dangerous action), quite similar to the about:config warning screen.

I don’t think it’s menacing at all. It gives an informative list of features, which is nice to know. I could see a lot of people wanting to turn off all AI then realizing they actually want local translate instead of sending everything to google.

And you’ve got the button intents mixed up. Primary color is always the encouraged action in that kind of design. Dark pattern would be if the colors were flipped.

Other than link previews all the features they are opt-in in the sense you’d have to actually use the feature.

1. Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
2. Smart tab groups which i don’t think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
3. Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don’t want to accidentally do it (edit: see correction in reply)
4. A sidebar chatbot integration which you’d have to use on purpose
5. Someone said perplexity in search engine options which you’d have to do on purpose

You think VC is putting money into firefox? Wtf?