If you're confident in the value of the AI, make the feature Opt In.

Let the strength of your product speak for itself.

Im already using the "ai killswitch" by using a different browser.

Didn't they say similar shit about tracking, too? Then they backtracked that with later updates?

It sucks to see, but I think Firefox is going down the shitter.

If they could develop F-AI-refox as a separate browser I could be cool with Firefox.

Yeah I'm not touching Firefox. Will stick to Librewolf.

Get fucked, Mozilla. Your credibility won't come back.

Like, in general or just that specific browser instance?

God damn better be

'oh, don't worry; you can turn it off!'

That's what they all say. Fucking rapists.

Fuck you, it's not going on my system. It's sure as hell NEVER being installed in something like a web browser that has access to my password vault when it's unlocked.

I might(unlikely) have considered it, if it was op-in. But just the fact that it's opt-out means I've got to make a point of turning it off, AND regularly verifying it's stayed off because it will "accidentally" turn on again.

Id prefer an on switch

Mozilla using rapey techbro language.

Mozilla: "You said you didn't want it, but I know you really do. So shut up and enjoy it. If there is issues you can just kill it and it won't come back."

So done with their bullshit. After 25 years they have lost my trust.

Shouldn't AI features be added as extensions and not in the main browser? This was the reason they killed live bookmarks, and I have to believe those were way easier to have as a feature. Shoehorning AI into the browser seems like it's going to add a ton of bloat and support effort just to have "Now with AI!" on the tin.

I mean, ya as long as they keep to the "All AI features will also be opt-in." promise, fine whatever. But, this seems like such an odd choice.

*until we silently remove it once the outrage dies down

But I do ask that you don't have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we're going to do the wrong thing here.

Well, they've been consistently doing the wrong thing for a long time now, so it's not like it's baseless.

I do feel bad for some of the developers in Firefox. I imagine lots of them, maybe even the one who answered here, joined because they believed in Mozilla or Firefox. And they might be trying to steer things back, but there's only so much they can do against the direction of the company. And the company has been trying so hard to lose loyal Firefox users...

I hope we can (re)gain your trust here.

I'm afraid it's too late for that. The only way I can imagine that happening is Firefox gets moved away from the Mozilla Corporation into a new thing that just focuses on making a decent privacy oriented web browser.

It sounds like they're trying to be as transparent as possible while leaving lots of flexibility and freedom for users. I honestly don't understand all the butthurt and hate.

You get a whole browser for Free (in both senses of the word) FFS. All this contempt is unjustified.

I think the market will turn out to be the real kill-switch, possibly for Mozilla ss a whole.

I don't want a kill switch, I want an enable switch (which I will never use).

Opt-in, not opt-out.