After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.

Mozilla said that all the AI features that are or will be included in Firefox will also be opt-in.

Finally some good Firefox news.

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[–] 45 points 10 months ago (1 child)

How about shipping with an “alive” switch so I dont even have to think about this shit?

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cant wait for the back peddling to begin.

    . We have changed our policy and some AI powered tools can no longer be disabled with the Kill Switch.

    . The Kill Switch may not work on browser forks due to several changes made, you must be using base firefox to have access to this feature.

    . We will no longer offer a kill switch in its current state, instead you will have limited access to disable some AI features one by one in the settings & config menus (good luck getting them all)

    . AI is actually great, so we have decided to make it impossible for users to disable it... Fuck you, we know better than our customers.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    there are some grey areas in what ‘opt-in’ means to different people

    Pathetic way to control the damage while saying "fuck you" to regular users.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This whole thing feels like another Synology moment..

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    No need. Already replaced it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I wish it was on by default.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    If they are going to make AI the beating heart of the browser, like ceo said, then this will be as helpful as the JavaScript option to turn that off

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    about:config

    browser.ml.enable false

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    So you're saying you want more analytics in Firefox???

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I wish we knew how many people have just one deliberate interaction with AI - which is to switch it off.

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