You said it better than me. This is the real reason Firefox has declined, and it's basically because of a monopoly.

Exactly.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when anti-trust regulations mean nothing.

The fact that it's difficult to separate Chrome from Android dooms most competitors, which is bad for everyone.

Yes, although they can't go all in on that because it doesn't help monetization...

Well, that's kind of their whole point-- can AI be done in a way that guards privacy. It's not impossible even with cloud processing.

And "Trust" should be a big deal-- unfortunately most people don't care and Chrome has a much bigger marketing budget (and monopoly on Android).

Confidential compute (intel, amd and nvidia) already is a thing and has nothing to do with mozilla. Without such drastic measures, no, it IS impossible with regular cloud processing.

So what actual model are they using? The details are super vague.

They do have a focus on that, it just hasn't really panned out. To be fair, you're talking about the billion dollar question. It's not exactly an easy problem.

Yes, I also love this. I much rather have control, and decline to install apps.

So you just hate everyone? Got it.

Same, and its amazing.

How can people complain about FF so much, when it's the only mobile browser that even gives you this option, and radically cleans up mobile browsing.

It's called motivated reasoning. "Firefox must suck because I don't want to switch to it", so when firefox buys a bookmarking tool and integrates it into the browser, that's apparently "user hostile", while google wants to force your browser to attest that you haven't blocked any ads.

But no, it's "mozilla bad"

Seriously, there's an amazing amount of shooting from the hip happening here.