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Yes it does. Just read up on Mozilla.

Mozilla receives the vast majority of its funding—roughly $400 million annually from Google

Mozilla has made announcements regarding transforming Firefox into an AI-heavy browser and have started alienating longtime open-source supporters

Massive salaries paid to Mozilla Foundation executives.

Firefox is a joke because it's no longer a users browser. Rather than it just being a browser it's now a VPN, Ai and other.

I give it two years before it starts shoving advertisements.

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I have used Firefox every day for over a decade. There are no AI features. There is no advertising. There is no restriction on extensions. Have never seen a VPN or anything other than an address bar that loads websites. It is probably the only modern standards complaint browser that is fully FOSS and out of corporate control.

Stop getting your news from corporate propaganda and the outrage mob.

Try refreshing Firefox. On opening it shows two recommendations for Google; a large "VPN" button in the address bar; a toast asking me for my weather location; the address bar tries to cross sell me three Mozilla products: "Monitor, Relay and VPN".

I'm not sure how the new AI stuff works as I never enabled it, but apparently that's there, too.

> Stop getting your news from corporate propaganda and the outrage mob.

Mate, It's even bundled with FreeBSD releases which is as far from corporate propaganda and outrageous mob you can get. I use FreeBSD.

With every new install of firefox requires you have to remove: sponsored content and news from tabs, Pocket. It asks you if you desire to use Mozilla Ai and many other Mozilla third party shite.

So maybe it should be you who needs to open their eyes. Reformat your OS and reinstall Firefox and then tell me it doesn't come with shite.

One can just click the little buttons once, and get on with the business of the day. I don't understand why this seems so hard?

Because it's not just once, nearly on every release it's some new bullshit feature.

These buttons get a little bit more darker to where the buttons are so little they hide. Hidden in obscure locations wasting my time to get on with my day.

I update ff as much as the next guy, I don't know what you're talking about. Weird how we don't disagree.... But seemingly the same world has two faces.

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