• Asafum@feddit.nl
    0·
    2 months ago

    This is actually perfect in that enshittification is exactly like death: it comes for everyone or in the context of technology, everything.

    There is no popular product or service that doesn’t eventually get the enshittification treatment to squeeze more blood from the stone.

    • tiramichu@lemm.ee
      0·
      2 months ago

      Not quite, I don’t think. Enshittification is driven by profit motive, which means if there’s no money at all involved, then there’s no motive.

      I guess you chose your words carefully though because the terms ‘product’ and ‘service’ pretty much imply that money is involved somewhere there.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        In terms of foss projects it’s ego of maintainer like in cdda case or/and competent maintainer stepped down like linus plans to

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        thanks, the however-many comments before you that said the same thing didn’t get through to me, but yours totally did!

    • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      It’s not dead. It’s just the default option for boomers.

      It’s like Internet Explorer or Netscape. It exists so you csn download something better.

      • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think you fully understand just how much the ‘default’ is. Between edge and chrome it’s the default for everything.

        Introducing children to the Internet? Chrome. Old folks? Chrome. businesses? Chrome (sometimes edge). Personal use for 90% of people? chrome.

        (also edge is used to install something better which again, for 90% of people, is chrome.)

    • BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      Don’t think it’s talking about “death” just enshitification

      Side note: gotdamn firefox is less than 3.0% According to the same website, Linux is at 4.5% marketshare. It’s rarer to use firefox than linux (I’m on iceweasel btw)

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    Noooooo.

    I like my Extensions.

    The internet isn’t worth having without Ublock, Ghostery, Scriptmonkey, etc.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    It’s been going for years now. We just don’t want to move away because, frankly, there’s little viable alternatives.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      This process has been underway since the project switched their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox. Early Firefox was lightweight with limited features and the idea that you would add your own as extensions for the features you wanted. Then it started gaining traction and the Mozilla developers started forcing features in that should’ve been extensions. It’s been downhill ever since!

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        0·
        2 months ago

        A few months ago people would have still downvoted your comment, but the message has made it to everyone now. Mozilla and with that Firefox is an endangered species that needs to be steered back into safety.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        Even better, they took actual extensions and made them built-in and impossible to remove. The work was already done to keep a lightweight browser with extra features in option, and they reverted it.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      They’ve been making announcements indicating that they’re going to start focusing on chatbot/AI/LLM bullshit instead of what they should be doing, which is maintaining their web browser.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
          0·
          2 months ago

          There’s also the news of them forcing opt-out only on tracking today or yesterday

          Then there was the news that they fired one of their open source executives because he had the audacity to get cancer

          Then the news that they (Mozilla) acquired an ad company because “we’re built different and we can fix her and totally not get corrupted by ads in the process”

          Also the AI shit as commented

          Oh and then the news where they almost sucked Putins dick and pulled FF from being accessible in Russia for a day or 2

          And a bunch of other stuff that I’m probably forgetting about. And that’s just within the last year

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Nothing. Lemmy hates Firefox for some reason. It’s getting old and boring seeing these posts. You can disable all the telemetry crap and anything else you want in the about:config. The fact that they let you do this automatically makes it better than most other browsers.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      2 months ago

      The thing is that we need a better donation system, for people to trust it.

      An auditable system, and goal oriented.

      I’m tired of donating to something and seeing that instead of the good project I wanted my money went to some crazy side project or to some over the top salaries for high corporate.

      We need some kind of trustable platform that audits where donation money goes, and enforces binding of the donated money for the purpose it was donated for.

      I got really burned with the whole wikiMedia thing. And since them I’m very cautious to who I donate to.

    • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      The chair-person makes 2.5 million a year…

      It think the problem might be they have too much money…

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    Hey! Why not add an AI assistant that summarizes each page I visit! It would be awesome 😎. But only if the computation is done off-site. I don’t want to bother my computer cpu too much…this page depicts 7 consenting adults engaging in what would otherwise be described as an Australian cum slut gangbang clusterfuck with a 3 finger twist and large bottle of rum up the asshole…

    Joe! Joe! Come here quick! Remember the dude from yesterday? Yeah, cum slut cluster fuck? Exactly! Look he’s asking for it again! I think he likes it. Why don’t we send his information to the appropriate authorities?

    …ring ring! Yes? Is this the guy who really likes Australia cluster fuck videos? Ehhh, why would you ask such a thing?..well I am the authority on this topic! I wrote the book, see?..and another page …and another page… Yeah, it’s mostly photos of me and my 6 male friends. Oh! Ah!.. Can I help you? Well I didn’t bring my 6 friends with me but do you have sex guy friends? Oh I said sex, didn’t I. Yeah I do have sex friends! Wait a minute, did Mozilla Firefox sent you after they shared my most intimate searches thru the NSA AI servers? Gosh darn it! Well it doesn’t matter, what’s done is done. I guess I’ll just take my pants off, go ahead and get more comfortable too. You want anything to eat while we wait here for my six friends? One of them is really fat, is that okay? I mean he’s really, like you know, morbidly obese sort of fat. I hope you are okay with his girth.

    And Soo the user had a great time thanks to Mozilla Firefox. The end! She was never found until the x-ray, when her body was found biologically fused and bonded to the user’s friend’s body along with two other doctors from previous visits. It was pretty bad. It was big news in Australia 🦘.

    I gotta go sleep 💤😴💤💤.

    • el_abuelo@programming.dev
      0·
      2 months ago

      Ok I’m probably just a simpleton who doesn’t get it…but is this comic really suggesting that HTML5 I’d a negative thing, and worse, is the drumbeat of a tyrannical web?

      I mean really…HTML5 is one of the best things to happen to the Web and the W3C is imo the essential glue holding things together.

      Browser inconsistencies are so few and far between now it makes building an inclusive Web much easier, you can almost do it by accident.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    0·
    2 months ago

    Google chrome, unfortunately is still very alive and well.

    You can still block ads system-wide with adguard for desktop…Not sure if it works on linux. But there’s also nextDNS, very easy to set up when you use yogaDNS. Or nextDNS’s own app to do it.

    You need to pay for those things, but paying for adblockers is better than paying each individual website you go to to not have ads

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    0·
    2 months ago

    Well then I’ll make my own browser! With blackjack! And hookers!

    Oh. Wait…that’s just tor-browser.