Do you have numbers behind these assertions? How much money is spent on “crap”?

That doesn’t really discount the argument. Not a lot of investment for a decent return. Why is that bad?

Pocket and VPN make money, that would be like firing IRS auditors in the name of efficiency.

I agree that general purpose AI isn’t really all that interesting, since I don’t think it is going to drive involvement or investment. I also imagine that it doesn’t really cost that much - they don’t have any real products behind it, and they all seem clearly experimental.

I guess I understand your aversion to contributing to “junk projects”, but if they are junk projects, there isn’t likely to be a ton of investment. Harder to shift the bottom line.

I see this sentiment sometimes, but just like with the US Federal government, everyone thinks that what everyone else is working on is superfluous.

It’s easy to say generally “there’s all this wasted money”.

Yeah? Where?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/

I really am curious. I’m not a fan of AI, so I would agree that those seem superfluous – but at the same time, the AI based image summarizer actually sounds cool - and good for accessibility. The translation service is VERY useful, and it is amazing that it runs locally.

So yeah, I’m curious. What is junk?

I never used those, but I have been using Winger for a while. Not a strong recommendation, but I am continuing to use it. I also heavily abuse tab searching and switching via the awesomebar.

I’m using Fedia - must be an issue with replication or something. I have no control over that, sorry.

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