to be clear, i'm not switching browsers over their acquisition of an ad business. all i've done is delete my mozilla account.

i'm preparing to make a switch, because i strongly believe manifest v2 support will be removed in the future, and that the ad business will negatively affect firefox. mozilla has followed google off every cliff, and i'll point towards floc as an example of that, since that's essentially just the deceptively named 'privacy-preserving ad measurement' rebranded.

once v2 support is gone, firefox will be on equal or worse footing compared to chrome with regards to privacy. at that point, i may as well go for chrome, since that doesn't have websites breaking in it for bad reasons. i don't care if david or goliath wins when i find both undesirable.

if "AI" is in chrome, i haven't noticed it. i assume they're just doing what mozilla is doing where it's mostly just vapid marketing nonsense.