Friday, 24 March, 2023

Mozilla allows free translation to Firefox without cloud processing

<p>Firefox now allows an official translation tool that does not rely on cloud processing. Firefox Translations is an utility that can be added to the browser. GPU clusters in data centres are typically used for this type of work. While Google and Microsoft&#39;s cloud-based tech (not to mention DeepL and other startup competitors) are accurate and rapid, transferring data to a third party to be evaluated and delivered back poses a serious privacy and security risk.</p>