TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything. If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.

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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This was so obvious but people were still defending Mozilla saying "at least there is a switch"...

Motherfucker you can opt-out of all sorts of stuff but look where that got us to with all these big tech companies. Opt-out is completely worthless.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I mean this is a crap article and a crap series of opinions. I only read it because it keeps getting spammed over and over. Now I understand why they've been downvoted consistently, it's a trash opinion.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    They have a point, I wonder if the re-posts are so down voted because they are considered spamming or for some reason related to the content

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Loads to a blank white page on my phone. (Chrome, AdGuard.)

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    That was a very repetitive and zelous read. The data Mozilla is using for their AI isn't open, free and properly licensed. Author hates baked in LLMs. Defiantly not worth reading in it's entirety.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I opted out completely by not using the Firefox browser anymore.

    Don’t trust a company that says one, whelches on that idea, does damage control and then tries to offload that shit with PR and a ‘switch’ to make you happy.

    They’re cooked leave the browser in the past and move on.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Leave the browser for what? I hope you’re not going to mention any Chromium based browser. And if you mention Gecko, guess who develops that. Unless there’s a large group willing to fork and maintain Gecko and hope everyone starts using it or constantly maintains compatibility, it’s not going to go anywhere.

    Does it suck? Yes. Does it suck less than Chrome… hell yes.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago

    I’m not going to recommend shit. Do your own research a choose what’s right for you.

    There are plenty out there not trying to fob AI onto you as a way of skirting their own shit decisions.

    If you want to suck the teat of new Firefox go ahead.

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    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I would note that it appears that the poster created this account immediately prior to posting, and then immediately started spamming this post to many different communities, which isn't something that I'm super enthusiastic about.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    It's annoying to have to create a new account since federation from mbin to Lemmy doesn't seem to work across many instances. That and adding a thumbnail to many Lemmy communities simply strips the shared link.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago
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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    It is how it should be. Where is the problem now? Accountability sink?? Are you that desperate??

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    https://lemmy.world/post/40834399

    Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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