Regular, non-expert internet users find it fun, or even amusing, to play gacha games. And yet the sentiment about a potential new gacha game panel built into Firefox has been overwhelmingly negative. While sophisticated gamer aesthetes find those creations gauche or even offensive, other cultures find them perfectly addictive.
Most of the people that see gacha games as a valuable use of their time on this earth belong to demographics that are dismissed by all you internet weirdos. It’s an incredibly mainstream experience now. Regular people have no problem collecting trading cards, making the numbers go up, and spending money on in-game purchases. If Firefox wants to keep up with the times it needs a built-in gacha game so that it can protect the privacy of all the billions of people who will see it and understand that Firefox is the web browser and gacha game platform made for them.
I consider myself “above” a regular internet user, as in I’ve hosted Lemmy just for the experience and recently moved all my services to a closed mesh for security and because I can.
Firefox have lost me as well, so who is it for these days?
The LibreWolf team communication was unclear after they originally decided NOT to remove Mozilla’s AI nonsense. Could you point me to a clear statement or a git commit that shows me they’ve removed the AI components and I’ll consider going back to LibreWolf.
Regular, non-expert internet users find it fun, or even amusing, to play gacha games. And yet the sentiment about a potential new gacha game panel built into Firefox has been overwhelmingly negative. While sophisticated gamer aesthetes find those creations gauche or even offensive, other cultures find them perfectly addictive.
Most of the people that see gacha games as a valuable use of their time on this earth belong to demographics that are dismissed by all you internet weirdos. It’s an incredibly mainstream experience now. Regular people have no problem collecting trading cards, making the numbers go up, and spending money on in-game purchases. If Firefox wants to keep up with the times it needs a built-in gacha game so that it can protect the privacy of all the billions of people who will see it and understand that Firefox is the web browser and gacha game platform made for them.
“Regular” internet users don’t use Firefox though. And adding a dumb game to the browser won’t change that.
I consider myself “above” a regular internet user, as in I’ve hosted Lemmy just for the experience and recently moved all my services to a closed mesh for security and because I can.
Firefox have lost me as well, so who is it for these days?
For now, it’s for the guys at Librewolf who keep the garbage out for me.
But yeah…. future doesn’t look great with Mozilla’s choices the last few years.
The LibreWolf team communication was unclear after they originally decided NOT to remove Mozilla’s AI nonsense. Could you point me to a clear statement or a git commit that shows me they’ve removed the AI components and I’ll consider going back to LibreWolf.