Yet ... with firefox that is exactly what you are using. Except there's a proxy in the middle (Mozilla).
I'm raising my hands, you got me.
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protoster commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user?
Chrome is able to capture the mass consumer market, due to Google’s dark pattern to nag you to install Chrome anytime you’re on a Google property.
Edge target enterprise Fortune 500 user, who is required to use Microsoft/Office 365 at work (and its deep security permission ties to SharePoint).
Safari has Mac/iOS audience via being the default on those platform (and deep platform integration).
Brave (based on Chromium), and LibreWolf (based on Firefox) has even carved out those user who value privacy.
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What’s Firefox target user?
Long ago, Firefox was the better IE, and it had great plugins for web developers. But that was before Chrome existed and Google capturing the mass market. And the developers needed to follow its users.
So what target user is left for a Firefox?
Note: not trolling. I loved Firefox. I just don’t genuine understand who it’s for anymore.
I use Firefox because I don't want to use a browser provided by an advertising company e.g. Chrome.
protoster commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
How do these changes help to funnel users towards Azure and Office Copilot 365?
Folks could have used those services even if Windows itself wasn't getting clanked, right?
It's simple advertising. People have a higher chance to use a product if it is advertised to them. I don't think there is a microsoft app these days that doesn't have a copilot logo visible in it at all times (even Paint).
protoster commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
>Windows itself is about to change in a really big way such that it already requires AI-specific hardware
The AI models that everyone wants to use are cloud based. What is the purpose of AI hardware on users' machine?
protoster commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
WTF is wrong with Microsoft? No one is asking for this.
Nothing. MS decision makers are fulfilling their duty to maximize profit by utilizing Windows to funnel users towards their most profitable, revenue generating, services of Azure and Office Copilot 365.
protoster commented on Gmail AI gets more intrusive daveverse.org/2025/11/07/... · Posted by u/speckx
Anecdotally, I don’t see any of this. I have all “smart” features in gmail turned off; there is an option like this in the settings.
Google’s Help: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322
Also relevant:
> By default, smart feature settings are off if you live in: The European Economic Area, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom
This is often the case with Google products because the A/B testing is rampant.
protoster commented on Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car caricecars.com/... · Posted by u/RubenvanE
Would be great to read about it but my residential internet has apparently been blocked for "malicious activity".
Residential internets are now proxies for AI scrapers.
protoster commented on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark gamingonlinux.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/haunter
My favorite has to be the Windows 8 era UI disaster.
How do most people log into a server? With a high-res physical touchscreen, or remote desktop?
So let's make a whole bunch of functionality impossible to access, because you have to bump up against a non-existent edge of a windowed remote screen, and literally make the UI not fit into common server screen resolutions at the time. I don't remember if 1024x768 was the minimum resolution that worked, or the maximum resolution that still didn't work. But it was an absolute comedy case.
I want to say that with only the basic VGA display drivers installed, screen resolution was too small to even get to the settings to fix it, but it's been a while and I can't find the info to prove it.
Windows struck the iceberg back in 8. It took until 11 for people to finally start to abandon ship in numbers.