TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.
Why won’t these pesky peasants shut up and give us our data?
Who could have known that the people who voluntarily use a tiny niche browser mostly for privacy/idealism reasons wouldn’t wany just another AI browser?
Honestly, how out of touch with their user base can they be?
If I want a good browser that works with every website, I’d take something chromium based. If I want an AI browser, I’d take one of the many chromium based ones.