Mozilla only has finite time, money, and resources, so the impact of these features is a detriment to even the people who don't use them. Those resources could have been better budgeted.

For example, "image caption for the blind" sounds great, but do you know how worthless it actually is? For starters, you can't use it on any webpage...

Well said. Everyone is crying about Mozilla dipping their toes in AI, while at the same time, ignoring Windows telemetry, Google's push for manifest v3 with chrome and so much more.

It's so stupid

How about we remove it from the browser, and if you want it you can install it as an addon.

bro use another thing. don't complain or suggest something should be different! Just abandon toot sweet. Seriously im in process of moving to either waterfox or librefox but the browser is practically an abstracted next level of the os so moving over is just a bit faster than moving my os. At least for my main browser.

That was what I installed on a Windows VM last week. Such a nice installer, too!

Pretty much, or any other fork that didn't add this garbage in the first place.

Absolutely. My loyal friend keeping me safe foir years. The Wolf is the way.

It raises awareness of an important issue. Not everyone is suscribed everywhere, some communities can be blocked or defederated, etc.

Just letting the voting happen. I'm sharing.

I only happened to see it here, mind sharing other commuties where they posted? I may want to join some^^

If most people don't want it enough to opt in, then it belongs in an extension, not the base browser. Then it's still there for the ones who actually do want it, but won't bother anyone else.

I have yet to spot anybody complaining about Firefox not having enough AI features, or hoping for opt-out instead of opt-in.

It'd be nice if they even pleased the open AI enthusiasts, but they can't even manage that.

You are aware translation services are available that are neither a local LLM nor Google-owned, yes? We had machine translation before ChatGPT existed, and I don't think that tech evaporated in a sudden fire just because a more harmful option appeared.

The appropriate option for Mozilla would've been to not include AI at all. If they really, really couldn't have swung that (they could've), then the second best option would be having all AI features set to off-by-default. Instead, we've got on-by-default. That is unambiguously a terrible idea.

Closed source Chromium sounds like fun.

No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it's also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.

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.