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.