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All the more reason to ditch Firefox for the only viable alternative, Chrome, which famously has a much more restrained approach to AI.

Sigh...

(And yeah, I know, Degoogled Chromium, *Fox, curl... But viable is not only doing heavy, but required lifting here...)

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The alternatives are not so viable. Librewolf is nice, but is still just 99% Firefox. Same with the Chromium-based browsers. We need real alternatives in this space.

The capital intensity of browsers is so high that there won't be any alternatives unless standards evolve to be simpler and easier to implement. That won't happen while Google and co are driving.

> unless standards evolve to be simpler and easier to implement.

It's almost impossible for people to prevent themselves from saying "we could do just a _bit_ more here" until over time they've built something complex enough they cannot manage it.

You're... pretty much conceding my point, while appearing to disagree? But, yeah, I'll ask ChatGPT how to be less obtuse next time...

Does Brave not exist anymore?

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