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Y'know, Firefox honestly confounds me. They get so caught up in trying to chase trends for a market they don't have, and it seemed to me for so long like it was blind ignorance from corporate leaders who don't respect the brand or the history of Firefox and Mozilla. They start shoving in AI and promising more visual redesigns... Then they go and start sending letters basically promising not to follow draconian age verification laws, and... i genuinely don't know what to make of this company?? Is it a bunch of ignorant figureheads planted by Google to control its only competition and keep it from genuine success? Or do these people genuinely think they are doing the best for the brand they can? Maybe there's hope for them yet, because despite being an avid Vivaldi user for the last 6-ish months due to the Firefox AI issues, the decision to directly face Identity verification head-on has actually convinced me to switch back, despite all odds. I didn't think there was a way to dethrone AI as my #1 big-ticket issue in the browser wars, but they found it. I truly had zero faith in them as an entity to be anything more than a puppet of Google now, but as Google has become one of the biggest supporters and beneficiaries of Identity verification, their "puppet" deciding "hey, you know what, maybe breaking the law on that is our duty now" is NOT what i expected of them. Cheers, Mozilla?