I'm really grateful for the introduction to deceptive patterns here.
I was not aware of it, and I think it's important to have language that can describe specifically how tech companies are trying to coerce people.

Why won't these pesky peasants shut up and give us our data?

Who could have known that the people who voluntarily use a tiny niche browser mostly for privacy/idealism reasons wouldn't wany just another AI browser?

Honestly, how out of touch with their user base can they be?

If I want a good browser that works with every website, I'd take something chromium based. If I want an AI browser, I'd take one of the many chromium based ones.

Not this seems overly reachy Firefox hate. This feature pushed months ago didn’t it? I managed to turn it off without even having to dig, and I know this because I don’t even remember how to do it.

Firefox defaulting a link preview gesture to on, but making the AI off by default, isn’t a dark pattern. Every new update doesn’t turn this back on if previously disabled. And trying to twist this into “Firefox is using dark patterns to trick you into using AI” just feels like an attempt to shove “Firefox bad” down people’s throats.

I find the amount of Firefox hate Lemmy seems to display so odd, especially when literally every other browser out there, from chrome to brave to opera, and everything in between, barely ever gets even a mention.

This stinks of negative advertising, and I’m getting so fucking tired of it.

Its open source right?

We can just make a “dumbfox” browser without ai

I've switched to IronFox on mobile and Waterfox on computers, personally.

Every AI pusher is a rapist at heart.

There are only two options for browsers right now blink and gecko and it's morally wrong to use blink. As much as I detest Mozilla's new direction, it's not nearly as bad as google. Never use a browser utilizing the blink engine (chrome derivatives).

I have been specifically thinking about how big tech keeps manufacturing consent for AI, having it on by default and counting accidental undesired uses for "95% of people adopted our AI features!" and all this… glad to see an article that has a title reflecting my thoughts. Looking up manufactured consent for AI usually brings things on how people can use AI to manufacture consent or change narratives, not on "consent to AI" being manufactured itself.

Wait, is "dark pattern" taboo now?

For me, as long as Debian still packages it and disables these features, I’ll be fine, but LibreWolf looks more and more tempting these days, and having tried it a bit, I can live with the minor annoyances.

I honestly think link previews are a good idea and can be very beneficial for users if done right. It would be good to know if a site could generally be trusted before I click a link. It‘s just hard to do that right, though.