Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful

Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.

The latest post on the Waterfox blog even says right in its URL that it is a "response to Mozilla." In it, lead developer Alex Kontos says:

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop. At least and most definitely not in their current form or for the foreseeable future.

This is, as the URL says, in response to new Mozilla head honcho Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, whose first blog from the role says:

Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

In the words of the late great Douglas Adams, "this has made a ...