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This is incredible and super important. For all the blunders of Mozilla in the last decade, they still have some great projects. I am also grateful of them not scrapping common voice.

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In the long run, I am a super huge fan of Mozilla and Firefox. I am using it right now. After a 10 year stint of using Chrome exclusively I now use Firefox as my main driver. Unfortunately I still need to keep chrome around for weird situations where the website developer only tested in Chrome (Yes this still exists. A shopping cart in a popular website - cough Home Depot cough cough - that recently failed me in Firefox worked in Chrome. I haven't tried in a couple weeks hopefully that is fixed.)

Also important, because now it seems at least in germany, on Google translate, there is the translate website button missing. From Switzerland I saw the button lately when I tryed. I don't know if it is because go to cencored (russian) sites. My company blocks google translate anyway, probably because of the same reason.

Are you sure?

Under Google Übersetzer I see three button: Text, Dokumente, Websites

Yes, at least last week. The Internet from work is routed to Germany (Paderborn). Last week the third button "Websites" was missing. From home in switzerland the button was there.

Also if you entered "translate website" Google sugested Yandex on second place ..

Try copying the url into the translator's text field. It's how I've been using it for years.

it's not their project, all they did was to write a form in JS

the whole project is a EU funded one, all done in the university of Edinburgh

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303

you giving full credit to Mozilla is dishonest, to say the least

it aligns to their past projects, including using Mullvad and slapping a Mozilla sticker on top of it to claim it as their own

also it is super funny to read this:

> H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) MAIN PROGRAMME

little do they know, EU never learn

All they did was ‘write a form in JS’???

> Our solution to that was to develop a high-level API around the machine translation engine, port it to WebAssembly, and optimize the operations for matrix multiplication to run efficiently on CPUs.

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