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41·7 days agoHow so? HN is literally the only forum I know of which doesn’t require email to regsiter an account and has a free, publicly accessible API.
The problem is the “AI” presence in itself. It shouldn’t be in Firefox at all, or frankly in any other software.
Also, corporations and their CEOs lie every single day, you know.
All these teams cannot maintain their own browser engine
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There are poisoning scripts for images
Link?
But seriosuly: don’t do this. Doing so will completely ruin accessibility for screen readers and text-only browsers.
Honestly, fuck anyone who seriously implements this on their website.
Here’s a table version of this graph:
Year-Month Windows, % OS X, % Unknown, % Linux, % Chrome OS, % iOS, % Android, % Playstation, % macOS, % Other, % 2010-01 93.76 5.16 0.2 0.7 0 0 0 0.15 0 0.02 2011-01 92.02 6.56 0.07 0.74 0 0.44 0.01 0.15 0 0.02 2012-01 89.62 7.33 0.07 0.82 0 1.71 0.24 0.14 0 0.07 2013-01 90.96 7.95 0.07 0.88 0.01 0 0.12 0 0 0 2014-01 88.87 8.35 0.05 1.13 0.14 0 1.45 0 0 0 2015-01 88.19 9.1 0.91 1.46 0.33 0 0 0 0 0.01 2016-01 85.18 9.03 3.8 1.47 0.51 0 0 0 0 0.01 2017-01 84.4 11.2 2.07 1.55 0.77 0 0 0 0 0.01 2018-01 82.68 12.8 2.17 1.43 0.9 0 0 0 0 0.01 2019-01 75.47 12.33 9.41 1.61 1.17 0 0 0 0 0.01 2020-01 77.7 17.04 1.83 1.9 1.52 0 0 0 0 0 2021-01 76.26 16.91 3 1.91 1.91 0 0 0 0 0.01 2022-01 75.5 15.85 3.86 2.19 2.6 0 0 0 0 0.01 2023-01 74.14 15.33 5.27 2.91 2.35 0 0 0 0 0.01 2024-01 73 16.11 5.33 3.77 1.78 0 0 0 0 0.01 2025-01 71.9 15.02 7.43 3.72 1.92 0 0 0 0 0.01 2025-11 69.37 8.26 13.14 3.07 1.3 0 0 0 4.85 0 Unfortunately I can’t paste the whole table here because of character limit so look at it here if you want to (in Markdown format).
Edited on 12/15/2025 12:05 UTC because the link suddenly died.
7·1 month agoI like it because there are some very obscure sites in its index, which can be returned from fairly simple queries.
The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results
Yahoo and Duckduckgo return pretty good results for me.
16·1 month agoThis still doesn’t mean Google has some kind of ownership for it. Nobody stops you from forking it and taking it into a different direction.
ai shit is all easy to disable
Users don’t have to disable it. Just give them a browser where they’re not enabled by default!
Google tech
Chromium is open-source. It doesn’t belong to Google or anyone else.
There aren’t better alternatives
They are literally mentioned in the article:
Those unhappy have another option: use an AI‑free Firefox fork such as LibreWolf, Waterfox, or Zen Browser.
- https://manualdousuario.net/en/mozilla-firefox-window-ai/.
Yes. Chromium isn’t bad in itself though.
What do you mean by “we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good”? Why should I use a browser which is actively anti-user when there are better alternatives out there?
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