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Is it coming for the branch or the fox?

Something we haven't observed yet are hyperlinks automatically created from a web of documents. This is usually a manual process: which word or words to select, and which specific URL to go to.

This is awesome but it cuts off what’s underneath.

Show the “full image” with a pond of Google and Microsoft crocodiles. Because that’s what’s really going to happen. Mozilla’s little fox is going to get eaten alive.

There are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI.

A browser is literally a user agent. What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?

I actually feel like these integrations are fine, as long as they are opt-in or easily opt-outable of permanently. For now, I don't see the harm in adding another default search engine, it's much less obstrusive than the home page sponsored links. And if it gets them a little more independent from google by siphoning perplexity's seemingly infinite vc investment money, so be it.
There’s no money to be made in writing privacy respecting web browsers lol. Give Mozilla a break.