Else you might want to use show HN.
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Else you might want to use show HN.
This should be criminal. And I believe it might actually be criminal in EU.
In a way, every time a Firefox user-agent string is logged it is a sort of vote for a more open web.
It will stop working. Why not get ahead of the curve and move to Firefox now?
(at least is has been force-removed on one of my machines. On another machine, it hasn't happened yet)
Soon, I expect them to be almost invisible. The LLM will gently be nudging the user towards some products rather than others.
For example, let's say a user asks how to do X. The LLM could then respond with an itemised list of steps to accomplish X. But the steps might involve doing it in a way that would later require services from some company.
Obviously, there is a potential to do this in ways we cannot even imagine yet.
Blocking it using traditional adblocking technologies like uBO will not be possible.
Only solution I see is to run trusted LLMs locally. But it will require some sort of "open source"-like trusted training of those LLMs. I think we need a movement similar to what gave us Wikipedia and Free software in the 90s/00s.
Are you sure that USD 500 million goes into the development of Firefox each year? Or does it go to funding of questionable Mozilla Foundation projects?
Admittedly, I have not checked the numbers recently but last I looked into it I got the impression that Firefox development was an embarrassingly small amount of what Mozilla spends their money on.
Of course, they are not going to grow to the level of FANG with this approach but do they have to?
I am a very happy Kagi subscriber myself. And I loathe when I have to wade through SEO spam sites on the few occasions where I have to use Google, Bing, etc. due to being on someone else's computer.
Does not make it less racist.