[ZeroGravitas]

I also liked Pocket integration.

But the naive purists seem determined to team up with the genuinely evil in every walk of life, so Chrome monoculture seems inevitable.

And it's not like Google or Microsoft is going to do anything with AI that is worse than this, right?

[Nextgrid]

Nobody would have an issue with those features being add-ons. In fact the Pocket integration is actually an add-on, silently downloaded on first run based on some online check.

If they’re gonna be bundling add-ons, I’d rather have them bundle something universally useful like uBlock Origin, but obviously they won’t do that because publishing a browser with an actually unique and useful selling point is not in their best interests.

[RunSet]

I recall the original interface of Firefox was abandoned in favor of copying Chrome's with the rationale being that "it could be implemented as a third-party add-on" or some such.

"Why does the default interface get relegated to an extension when things like pocket and hello and AI chat are opt-out?" I ask, rhetorically.