I gave it up a year ago at least when they changed their terms of service to start selling your data to advertisers. They haven't been a privacy-focused company for at least that long now. They are lying to you.
They're not just lying, they're killing the hopes of other independent browsers to take the reigns and the attention of the FOSS community. Mozilla is incredibly cancerous from this perspective: it's Google-backed controlled opposition.
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Grok 4 Heavy wasn't considered in comparisons. Grok meets or exceeds the same benchmarks that Gemini 3 excels at, saturating mmlu, scoring highest on many of the coding specific benchmarks. Overall better than Claude 4.5, in my experience, not just with the benchmarks."
I think these types of comments should just be forbidden from Hacker News.
It's all feelycraft and impossible to distinguish from motivated speech.
When people are operating at two levels, you can't leave either unaddressed.
That plays into the hands of those using subterfuge.
The power grab is riding on reasonable concerns about children. So its worth improving safety for children for two reasons: (1) reducing parents reasonable concerns and making parenting in the modern age a bit easier, and to (2) take that issue off the table (or meaningfully reduce the leverage it supplies), for the power grabbers.
Ironically, the fact that the underhanded motives lie beneath a reasonable concern, makes solving the reasonable concern in a healthy way even more critical.
Here is just one solution that helps parents, and respects everyone's privacy: Zero knowledge proofs.
Which allow anyone who is verified by anyone already (i.e. credit card company, ...) to get a cryptographic key from that organization, that they can use to anonymously verifiably assert they are 18+ to sites, (1) without giving sites any other information, and (2) without their key source getting any information on what sites they visit.
Where is Dang? Or the other staff? The comments here are embarassing to read as a long time member of HN. The next generation is bringing regression to the mean a little too hard here.
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