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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat) (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the shitload ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

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[–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Firefox is not the devil, but "ideologies aside", the basic idea is:

  1. (Just like microsoft), They could have just decided to put it in one of the "many" variant of the product, name it FoxAI, let the users decide and call a day. Instead, they've chosen to force a very heavy component like that on the main version out of blue.

  2. Switched or not. Now, you'll have 'way' more bloat on a browser, who should be focused on speed and performance.

  3. The whole thing about AI on free stuff is to get as much data as possible to train. You have to trust them to switch it off completely.

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