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Turn off all AI with one click (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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Noticed this in 148.0 for desktop

Firefox settings screen: "AI Controls You always have a choice in Firefox, including whether to use features enhanced with AI. More controls coming soon. Learn more Block AI enhancements Blocking means you won’t see new or current AI enhancements in Firefox, or pop-ups about them. Get more details about what’s included and how to control traditional machine learning features, like search suggestions and recommendations."
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[–] 117 points 8 months ago (24 children)

Broken record chiming in: it should be opt-in, not opt-out.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    I chose to opt out of having Firefox installed. Gave me an opportunity to use the very satisfying but rarely used apt purge function.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Waterfox or Librewolf or what you trying now?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Librewolf, but also have Floorp and Vivaldi installed. How's Waterfox going these days? Feel like I haven't looked at that in ages.

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

    I havent used it myself but a buddy of mine is really liking it.

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

    i liked waterfox until it completely forgot my 2x 50+ tabs windows. yes i know "recently closed windows", they weren't there

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  • [+] 14 points 8 months ago (11 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    If Mozilla didn't pester you with notifications about AI tab grouping and AI page summaries, congratulations. It's still sapped limited time and resources away from fixing bugs and implementing features that aren't as controversial.

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

    They've commented on this. The time spent on this did not "take away from time spent on other things". The features were worked on by a few people who wanted to build those features. From a Mozilla employee in a hacker news thread.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So Mozilla did not pay the people that worked on, tested, and approved these features?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I actually couldnt find any public info to back up my comment so maybe a HN comment wasnt enough to go off. But Idk if announcing they partnered with OpenAI to integrate it would even improve things given their current actions.

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  • [+] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    The opposite of pro-AI isn't anti-AI. It's non-AI. Mozilla has a community forum to solicit feedback. Nobody used it to ask for AI. Instead, Mozilla repeatedly used it to announce they were going to push AI features on their community.

    People aren't converting to Mozilla because it has AI. They were never going to convert to Mozilla because they added a shopping toolbar, either. These are things that should have never been put into the browser. They're certainly alienating their existing users by trying to bleed them dry, though.

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