I was getting annoyed when they had a brief period where it seemed like every new feature was AI-related but they’ve calmed down on it a bit, thankfully. Just flip the no-AI toggle and still enjoy everything else they’ve done lately, like better HDR support, YouTube improvements, pdf tools, vertical tabs, containers, etc.

Librewolf / Waterfox depending on your privacy requirements?

I mean you can just turn it off including future ones, no?

And sadly, as much as I wish this weren't true, my 70y old mum I talked into Firefox does kinda make good use both of the translate feature and interestingly of the summarize. With age, she noticed she struggles with long texts, so she has the browser summarize it, checks whether it is what she actually wants to read, then later makes time to read it slowly with breaks.

That's just 1 user, I know. Still, it gave me pause. I didn't think summarize in particular had a real use case.

All of the AI functions can be disabled with a single checkbox.

Then you're a fool. Only a good browser with AI can defeat a bad internet full of AI.

Not as painful as PaleMoon or Librefox

I've found it much better than Chrome. Great plus for "Unload" feature, and I also use Auto Tab Discard extension.

uBO Lite is available on IOS. I can’t really tell how effective it is at this point though, because I use a combination of it + DNS filtering + Firefox Focus / DDG Browser + AdGuard.