It is trivial for a parent to gather materials for the kids without exposing them to billions of strangers/companies with who knows what intent toward them.
"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.
To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.
Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.
Nobody at Mozilla is forced to do anything, including adding obnoxious popups and unwanted features to the browser. If you're inclined to do that, why not go work for Microsoft or Google, where you'll likely be paid more to do it?
Choices have consequences, and user-hostile choices should have developer-hostile consequences.
This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage.
But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.
Maybe HN should add "Don't accuse comments of being LLM generated" to the guidelines, because this sure seems like it'll be in the same category as people moaning that they were downvoted or more closely people saying "Have you read the link?"
We've talked about this but we're not adding it to the guidelines. It's already covered indirectly by the established guidelines, and "case law" (in the form of moderator replies) makes it explicit.
That's my point... The fewer people use Firefox, the less money they get from Google. If you follow the money, it doesn't make sense for them to neglect Firefox.
I can't believe how this is common knowledge, this arrangement between Google and Mozilla as a weak and incompetent "competitor" propped up to avoid being accused of monopoly and anti-competitive practice. Why isn't it considered a form of fraud, not even with extra steps - a direct relationship. Maybe there's enough plausible deniability that it's hard to prove criminal intent.
In the browser space, what Apple is doing is awfully manipulative of the market too. It's almost like this situation is being willfully ignored and effectively encouraged by regulators.
