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People hate the term AI and so Mozilla were always going to struggle with providing modern functionality, as let's face it, the Internet is embracing AI whether we like it or not
This is poignant. AI as we know it is basically what we were calling machine learning a couple years ago. The same people that are very vocally complaining about the advent of a smarter browser, are the same people that bemoan Mozilla for depending on Google for financing. Somehow they want a browser that only the most devout privacy evangelists would use and they want a browser that is self-sustained through diverse deals, none of which they're able to see or feel.
I feel like there's a lot of disingenuous Firefox supporters who want a utopia browser and refuse to allow Mozilla to do anything to evolve the browser. These same people talk up all the Firefox forks and that change a few defaults and yet bemoan everything Mozilla does that makes those forks possible. It's boring.
And if not, the feature gets removed again in a year or so. So far it doesn't really seem like it's in your face or anything, so 🤷
But the problem is, people think that there's one single development team working on Firefox and if they're working on AI, they're not improving or working on anything else.
As a data scientist, trust me: you don't want us developing ANYTHING else. You guys dogged a bullet having us busy.