It’s only gotten worse, far as I’m aware. Right wing grifters and crypto grifters.

Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. With other people.

Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.

This is good enough for me. If they have an on boarding step/popup to say “Try our AI crap” and I have an option to say “No and don’t ever bother me about this again”, then it’s fine.