TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything. If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.

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[–] -5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Vivaldi for the win?

No AI crap at all

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Closed source Chromium sounds like fun.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago*

    No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it's also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.

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