on one hand, fuck Mozilla’s enshitifiation.
on the other hand, this is a pro for custom ROM users. you get the AI automatically stripped out.
it’s almost like firefox wants everyone to migrate over to waterfox, librewolf, or mullvad-browser
Mullvad isn’t on Android. I checked when I started using the VPN. Literally irrelevant to this discussion.
I’ve the feels that Firefox only exists to avoid monopoly on chrome.
Google funds its own antitrust competition
it might mean that users on non-certified or rooted devices can’t access all AI features in Firefox for Android
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Although some users might want to use these AI features. I’m not sure why they shouldn’t be able to do so.
Fuckkkkk.
Can Mozilla just fucking stop licking Google’s asshole for like 1 god damned week?
firefox lives and dies by google giving them money.
Why though, it could run as a stable project with little support outside volunteer and donations…which they ask for already.
Last I knew, Google provided like 3/4 of their total revenue, so… Google unfortunately gets to call some shots. Only way to really fix that is to give them a substantial alternative income stream.
or let them slip into obsolescence.
That would be worse.
It’s their biggest source of revenue, AFAIK.
Looks like right now it just blocks their AI features. Don’t threaten me with a good time Mozilla. Though I do worry about it spreading in the future
The token is used to access Firefox’s server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, > Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla’s1 compute infra.
Guess it’s nice I run graphene and can just block that, man that sucks though. I’m tired of Mozilla being only slightly better than the competition
graphene is ending this September
This doesn’t apply to GrapheneOS.
Is this supposed to be ignorance?
this is a completely different issue not in any way related to what you first linked to?
This doesn’t impact graphene at all
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GrapheneOS will have to start accepting using microg in place of the Play Services.
I doubt it, I see no reason they couldn’t continue using sandboxed services as they do now
microg won’t work without Google’s bootloader locks🔐
Google has never said they plan to remove bootloader unlocking as part of this change. If they do that will merely kill of pixels as a device choice. The graphene devs have been looking elsewhere for options for a while now, I’m not that worried
Ah, the Motorola venture…
These days, you see grapheneOS users whining every day. It’s so funny (Because they continue to swear to grapheneOS every day… ).
Graphene is a meme OS. Just use Lineage, it works on more devices.
I use my rooted, untrusted Chinese Xiaomi spy phone just like an untrusted device… Next time, I’ll look into open-source hardware and Linux as the operating system. I dont give a s… about custom roms which are still based on android because Android and closed Hardware (qualcomm etc (Whether it’s grapheneOS… Lineage, or whatever… No one can do anything with the firmware regarding modems, etc… No one can say what undocumented command sets are available, etc. )) is cancer
The only truly viable alternative that used Android was Project Ara… which is why Google bought up the patents and shut the project down. Everything else is just a smokescreen.
