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Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews (fedia.io)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/Technology@programming.dev
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TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.

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[–] 13 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

The link is not shown in Lemmy for some reason.

Here's the link: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html

A similar issue happened a while ago: https://lemmy.today/post/44634337

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    • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Is supposed to be a link to an article or something?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Not a federation issue. Limitation of Lemmy. Lemmy doesn't support link AND image in the same post "header". One or the other.

    You can do a custom thumbnail and a link OR you can do an image.

    And with either, you can put whatever the hell you want in the post body.

    But the "header" (can't really think of a better term, sorry) is image OR link.

    I've brought it up to the Lemmy devs that they desparately need to make this limitation clearer, at the very least in the Lemmy UI. They said they need to see an example of a better UI because they couldn't figure it out themselves. Can't make this shit up. Just clear out one when you fill in the other. Red warning message. Anything to make it fucking clearer. It shouldn't be tough, but here we are.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm posting from Fedia and am not picking an image at all, so it definitely feels like a federation issue.

    EDIT: See https://lemmy.today/post/44634337

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    It is a federation issue. Mbin made a change recently and I had to change some code in PieFed to stop this issue from occurring there. The Lemmy devs need to do the same, or Mbin needs to undo their change.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Glad I moved to Zen a while back, for the UI, but they seem to have their heads screwed on right. One upside here is that it'll breathe a lot of life into firefox forks...

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    I was never nagged about AI and always run the latest version of Firefox. I saw an AI thingy once when right clicking, I toggled it off, and that's it.

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