• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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      Well, I would recommend waterfox over firefox because waterfox has just straight up removed any AI stuff rather than giving you the option to opt out of it.

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          ~ish, waterfox is reconfigured firefox. They have a single button sync on first launch to clone your firefox data over, it took me like 60 seconds to swap everything over. And you get a lot more than just removing AI from firefox, it’s essentially a preconfigured firefox. Removes a lot of telemetry and analytic stuff, strict-enforces better security protocols, prettier layout and stuff.

          It doesn’t really buy you any new functionality, but it’s way quicker to just use waterfox than it is to spend hours configuring the weird shit like private DNS in firefox.

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          I agree, but also Waterfox just generally has a more free/unmonitozed default and the AI stuff is just an example. It’s a one-time switch to Waterfox and it’ will forever turn off/on the stuff that you would otherwise have to do manually.

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      You can maybe try Ladybird (most websites is kinds usable now I guess)

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        the lead developer for ladybird had a controversy regarding transphobia though

        while checking to see if anything happened regarding the controversy, i found that the same person that claimed that suggesting using gender neutral pronouns instead of assuming the reader was a man was advertising personal politics, the lead developer for ladybird, also complained about white men being actively discriminated against in tech and said he hopes “many more debate nerds carry on his quest to engage young people with words, not fists.” regarding the death of Charlie Kirk

        i was going to link sources for everything here, but this article has all of them already and its easier to have a single link

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          Ohh yes, obviously not in the condition to daily drive, and you need to compile from source.

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            ight straight up what is the use case for ladybird? Who do you think is going to “try” it?

            It doesn’t work yet - there’s not really a reason to “use” it unless you’re going to try and develop it