Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious. And @mozilla, @firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you're partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for. #generativeAI #SlightRant #AI #Firefox #Criticism #FuckAI

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This might shock you but Firefox is trying to appeal to people who are not already firefox users.

No they aren't. They are trying to appeal to investors and advertisers.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/advertising/index-exchange-partnership/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    ... and what, pray tell, do advertisers and investors desire?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The same thing they always want: Surveillance, behavior tracking, and avenues to advertise.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, but they want more users to surveil and track.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure, but Mozilla doesn't care about that. They only care about the short-term gains they can get by milking those advertisers and investors.

    If Mozilla cared about bringing in more users, they would do things that users want, instead of what they have been doing for the past decade or so.

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