• macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 months ago

    Their current userbase is not their target userbase. They are trying to reach a more mainstream audience but all of their attempts to monetize are seen as useless by their current userbase.

    • They want to increase revenue w/ ads - A loud swath of FF users are tech savvy and have adblocking enabled
    • They want to pivot towards AI - A loud swath of FF users see AI as gimmicky

    Repeat ad-nauseum

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    271·
    2 months ago

    They’ve had to hire three new interns just to carry around my enormous pile of tabs.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
    171·
    2 months ago

    Can we start a petition to NOT add AI bullshit to our browser?

    Just point to all current shitty machine learning models and how fucked up they are

  • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    wasn’t there a thing that google was paying them tons to be default search and that likely will soon stop due to antimonopoly cases… so they need a new cash cow.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    I just want to point out that recent court rulings on Alphabet’s business may threaten the future of Mozilla because they may not get revenue from making Google the default search engine.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 months ago

    They’re trying to be the MSN of the 2020s but their userbase has zero interest in advertising or AI slop. It’s not going well and they refuse to focus on their core product.