Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 2

@zkat @neia Independent unaffiliated metrics indicate 6 billion visits per month, making it the fourth-most-visited website, with the vast majority (~80%) of visits from direct traffic of people typing in the URL. https://www.semrush.com/website/chatgpt.com/overview/ And that's just the one biggest vendor, in one month, and doesn't include any data from China.

@freediverx "L take" is the last bastion of the person with no argument. What trust, exactly, have you lost? What's the _actual_ harm that you've suffered — not "I don't like the way this was communicated", but an actual harm that you have suffered, and in what way did you engage with taking agency to remedy that harm? What platform do you use now?

By all means, use Firefox and don't use AI. I don't give a damn about that, that's great. But think about this question deeply: What browser do you want your friends and family to use when they're using AI tools? We told people "social media from big companies is bad, get on Mastodon and Bluesky". And that works — provide useful alternatives. But if we simply say "stop using this thing you find useful, and I won't give you any alternatives", they'll just ignore us. And Big AI will win.

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests. https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5597010/openai-atlas-browser-chatgpt-data-privacy

@philnelson ?

@Jonstewartmill @markwyner he was probably making a joke because he uses CLIs every day

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Oh this is incredibly interesting. Should see if it can run a web browser... https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm

@synlogic4242 I was just being silly about CLIs, I use them every day. They’re just not right for the billions of people who’ve never encountered them and need to do ordinary web tasks.

@synlogic4242 there is a lot of research on this! It’s easy enough to test, hand someone an iPhone and a Linux prompt and ask them to send you a photo

@benbrown @lmorchard @links lol I love CLIs, I was just goofing.

@grumpygamer I'm curious about this, I love passkeys?

@isaacfreeman 🤣

@reflex @synlogic4242 yeah, -- help after … what, exactly? A random group of characters?

@jannem @stevenaleach I think that’s exactly it

@jonathanhogg I don’t think any of them could read it in an intellectually honest way as a slight at any of those situations, speaking as someone who’s neurodivergent myself. It is very plainly obvious that the joke was not framed around any of that, and it would take a lot of work to twist the wording to even imply it. I’m always happy to take critique if I’ve inadvertently been insensitive, but I’m less open to theoretical slights.

@reflex @syllopsium @stevenaleach yeah, this is a good summary.

So much of what's wrong with tech started from one simple phenomenon: focusing on the money-movers instead of people who actually *make* shit. Real technology matters. Inventors over investors, every time. Founders over funders. Writing code > writing checks. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/founders-over-funders/

@chadgeidel glad it was useful for you! Trying to write more stuff that frames things in ways that other people can use in their work or careers.