I don’t see any reason to assume the ad blocker built into Waterfox won’t allow you to do the exact same thing… Or you can just disable it entirely, because it doesn’t actually have an incentive to make you use it.
Not sure why that would cause you to run away from Waterfox
Guy got in trouble because of the dumbest possible telephone game (among other things)
For example, although court documents claim Sanchez searched, “is the 900 mAh battery from a (Game Boy) capable of being used in a trigger device," Sellers said that was actually a search from [his bail] supervisor, who was cross-referencing real searches from Sanchez to see if they could be used to make explosives.
[Bail supervisor] Coyle then took a screenshot of his own search history and sent it to the district attorney, leading to a violation of Sanchez’s probation and his rearrest, Sellers said.
It’s nice that OpenAI is being pulled in the for-profit direction and the non-profit direction at the same time, and is threatened with losing (more) money if it fails to do either.
QA is when you vibe code tests, right
The entire article can be summed up in 5 words:
an Anthropic official told CNN
Notable other passages include
Logan Graham, who heads the team at Anthropic its AI models’ defenses, told CNN
and
according to Anthropic
And
Anthropic said
And my personal favorite
Anthropic claims… CNN could not immediately verify this figure.
Wired’s Maxwell Zeff wrote about a number of journalists using A.I. to assist their writing, including the Times columnist Kevin Roose… who [created instructions] to help Claude write in his style, including the “10 commandments” of writing like Alex Heath.
Can’t believe anybody takes Kevin seriously. Not here, sure, but there are some in the tech sphere who loves that he says what they already believe.
My solution to this is never using OneDrive, which (terrible as it is) can be uninstalled on Windows 10/11.
Mozilla allows the installation of ad blocking extensions on Firefox, and it’s already exhibited hostility towards the most talented developer of those extensions.
Aren’t you the guy who likes Eliezer Yudkowsky?
If you’re worried about brain damage, you’re self-inflicting it.
What are the chances the 10-second warning becomes a 90-second unskippable one?
Why?
If you’re concerned about anything that has even a snippet of code from an unethical company, you can’t use any Firefox derivative.
Nice of WaterFox to add something Firefox community members have been requesting for years!
This isn’t exactly identical to the extension, but hopefully it’ll be better optimized to run in the browser itself. That’s good on desktop devices, but it’ll be an even bigger deal on mobile, because Firefox isn’t exactly well-optimized with its addon ecosystem.
Cmd+Q is the universal Exit command in Mac! Hopefully you add a prompt on exit to prevent losing your work.
Anyone who wants those features is already using a different browser. Mozilla is arriving late, handicapped by promises of “ethics,” and unable to advertise themselves except by practically apologizing for doing it
Sadly no, but the next round has not yet officially arrived to be shoved down our throats. It’s on its way though
Those quotes are nearly incomprehensible and they aren’t isolated incidents either. This CEO talks like every tech CEO selling AI products.
When you look at the term browser, it’s very antiquated in the sense that there’s static content, and when I click on the content, I get to the next link… With apps, it became more bidirectional. There’s more rich engagement with AI.
Instead of being a browser, it’s becoming a generative system, but it’s not doing it in a negative way that prevents the person’s incentive from creating the content in the first place.
CEO sure did say a thing. But it’s the interviewer’s job to say please explain what you mean" in response.
This has to be the most ridiculous paragraph I’ve ever read:
The difference between Firefox and other apps is that Mozilla has no incentive to prioritize a particular app or service.
Sure, Mozilla has no incentive to prioritize their biggest donor Google.
A choice screen could deliver a variety of models — probably curated by Mozilla, Varma said — or nothing at all. (Perplexity AI just appeared.)
This has to be a joke. What do you mean “it just appeared”? Mozilla only adds search engines after they secure fat stacks of cash, and Perplexity got even more kudos (including an in-browser notification) than other options like Ecosia.
There’s some promises in there though. This one caught my eye:
What else can users expect? According to Varma… “Smart Windows,” which will be Firefox’s first foray into bringing some of “AI” intelligence to the user.
This “foray” is bound to be a money waster, but as least Mozilla isn’t trying to make us pay to add this expensive slop…
“We don’t yet know how we will monetize,” Varma said. “Maybe we’ll have a subscription."
Well.
Beware: AI companies really want to sell a terrible solution to the problem they created.
What’s more likely: investors suddenly started caring about the environment, or investors are looking for ways to stop losing money on an unprofitable venture?
My bet is on the latter, especially with the context the article provides, and they’re just looking for a green parachute.
Anybody want to tell them?