@atomicpoet They recently switched over to become more of a search engine if I recall.
Apparently, though, you are more well known than I am.
@majorlinux @atomicpoet It's got me. Accurate enough profile, so far as it goes.
It's a bit disturbing that it's apparently trawled everything I've ever posted, but I'm hardly surprised.
@ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet That's what I want it to do when I'm asking it a question right? Do the search for me (guessing it's using Bing because of the more accessible API), and summarize the results. LLMs are relatively good at such a task.
@Schouten_B @majorlinux @atomicpoet Lots of folks didn't give their explicit consent to be indexed by search engines, whether traditional or "AI"-powered. They just don't want that, full stop.
No-one is judging you for not caring. You do you! But there are potential safeguarding and consent issues here that are of concern to some other people.
@ApostateEnglishman @Schouten_B @majorlinux @atomicpoet
I judge them for not caring, it's exactly those kinds of people who just "shrugg" are what has made the surveillance states we live in possible (surveillance being an integral component to the rise of fascism). I judge them pretty harshly.
@contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet I would say it's more the very concept of social media itself that makes that possible. A channel through which anyone can spread any lie they want to a bunch of idiots. Who can meanwhile lock themselves into bubbles surviving on falsehood after falsehood.
This is a bad idea. Look at a random day of things trending on Mastodon and how much of it is factually wrong.
That's probably a bigger risk than privacy (but people should do better)
@Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet Your attempt to downplay the risk to privacy you pose and distract people by trying to point a finger and blame something else is pathetic. Stick a fork in it, Firefox is done. I wonder how much money you've made from Google to tank Firefox. Collaborator.
@OdinVex @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet Write your own system then? And stop attacking people doing good in the world.
@Dss @OdinVex @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet I appreciate the comment. You get a thick skin for this kind of stuff. It's funny when people make accusations to you of conspiracies that you know for a fact aren't true.
It gives an interesting perspective into the conspiratorial mind and I always try to keep it in mind when I see conspiracies in parties I have difficulty trusting .
But yeah. Most of us at Moz take a paycut because we believe in what we're doing.
@Schouten_B @Dss @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet You sound just like those CEOs saying people should be grateful to work for them while they abuse their workers. I wonder how you can believe in that. "Let's make it worse and think it's better!"
Taking control from the user is not better. Helping ad-companies is not better. Helping Google/Meta/whoever is not better. "We are the chosen few, we know what's best for you" is the biggest reason Firefox's given for all this crap, paraphrased from a bunch of bugzilla-onward replies. No, my PC my choice.
My contention overall is this: Firefox is not about user privacy (it used to be, it was the holy grail for a long while). You claiming it is still about user privacy while it continues to erode it is just plain disinformation. Disgressing the conversation, Firefox's done, stick a fork in it people, it's Chromed.