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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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (15 children)

Better yet, just make a pull request. Its open source. Can build your own Firefox.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    xactly. or why even fork. just start building a new browser writing straight assembly or better yet bro code it with ai.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (13 children)

    The source code is there. Why reinvent the wheel. Its like 2 or 3 commands to build it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    oh building it straight up removes the ai? do builds ever fail? what are the three commands. I won't need specific libraries or other requirments for my os yeah?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (11 children)

    Ezpz

    • Download source
    • Delete ai commits
    • Install deps per Firefox and OS docs
    • Build per Firefox and OS docs

    Now you won't ever have to worry about it.

    Better yet, install Tor Browser or Mullvad browser and save yourself from typing 3 command lines.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (10 children)

    im already moving to either waterfox or librefox. comes down to if my addons have any issue with either. hoping waterfox as I already sorta have waterfox for a specific setup I don't want to change.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (9 children)

    Ah well I wish you luck with the fingerprint issues with those two browsers. Weird to care about AI being in your browser but not about that, but I guess its better than Chrome.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)

    What fingerprint issues are you aware of?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (6 children)

    https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox

    Search "fingerprint" on the issues page. Read the "closed" issues as well, because all they did was close the issue and direct them to a discussion page.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Could you link to a real issue so we aren't guessing about what we are looking at?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm seeing closed bugs from 2021 here, are we supposed to take these seriously?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Its been a known issue for a while, yes.

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