Google needs to fuck off.
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.
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.
That’s… alright, that seems not unreasonable. Am I misunderstanding this?
So those of us without Google’s spyware can’t use Mozilla’s AI crap? Lovely.
If only that one service had access to the API then I wouldn’t care much, but it sounds like any website can now check if my phone is rooted and deny me access.
I already disable all of the AI shitware on firefox, so this is a non-issue for me.
I’m someone who did not install mine via the play store, which sounds like means I don’t have access.
Luckily I don’t need it, but they just bifurcated their user base
I use the Fennec fork, from F-Droid.
TIL, I’ll check it out
There is also ironfox https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox if you scan the qr code it will add the repository to your f-droid app.
for me ironfox runs way slower than firefox and i dont know why. im using the same exact extensions on both. id prefer using ironfox but its borderline unusable (im on a pixel 9a running graphene)
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