Noticed this in 148.0 for desktop

Firefox settings screen: "AI Controls  You always have a choice in Firefox, including whether to use features enhanced with AI. More controls coming soon. Learn more Block AI enhancements Blocking means you won’t see new or current AI enhancements in Firefox, or pop-ups about them. Get more details about what’s included and how to control traditional machine learning features, like search suggestions and recommendations."

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[–] 117 points 8 months ago (24 children)

Broken record chiming in: it should be opt-in, not opt-out.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    I chose to opt out of having Firefox installed. Gave me an opportunity to use the very satisfying but rarely used apt purge function.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Waterfox or Librewolf or what you trying now?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Librewolf, but also have Floorp and Vivaldi installed. How's Waterfox going these days? Feel like I haven't looked at that in ages.

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

    I havent used it myself but a buddy of mine is really liking it.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    i liked waterfox until it completely forgot my 2x 50+ tabs windows. yes i know "recently closed windows", they weren't there

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  • [+] 14 points 8 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    If Mozilla didn't pester you with notifications about AI tab grouping and AI page summaries, congratulations. It's still sapped limited time and resources away from fixing bugs and implementing features that aren't as controversial.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    They've commented on this. The time spent on this did not "take away from time spent on other things". The features were worked on by a few people who wanted to build those features. From a Mozilla employee in a hacker news thread.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So Mozilla did not pay the people that worked on, tested, and approved these features?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I actually couldnt find any public info to back up my comment so maybe a HN comment wasnt enough to go off. But Idk if announcing they partnered with OpenAI to integrate it would even improve things given their current actions.

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  • [+] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    The opposite of pro-AI isn't anti-AI. It's non-AI. Mozilla has a community forum to solicit feedback. Nobody used it to ask for AI. Instead, Mozilla repeatedly used it to announce they were going to push AI features on their community.

    People aren't converting to Mozilla because it has AI. They were never going to convert to Mozilla because they added a shopping toolbar, either. These are things that should have never been put into the browser. They're certainly alienating their existing users by trying to bleed them dry, though.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wish they's just flip this switch themselves over at Mozilla and simply stop putting AI bullshit in the browser.

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    [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    After all the blowback they finally decided they fucked up and put this in. It wasn't the plan, it wasn't the idea. But it's a good reaction.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    This was the first thing I did when it popped up. I like how it opens the little submenu and shows every one of them being blocked. And that's how they'll stay.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    I did that by switching to Librewolf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

    I wonder what the variable name is so I can add a line to my user.js. Usually stuff like this can be changed with a setting in user.js.

    Edit: apparently there are a lot of such variables, and I think I have already turned off a few of them. I don't see what's new then, other than a UI for this. If you have to turn all these off, how can they talk about it this way..?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Mozilla promises that if you flip this switch, they won't keep surprising you with new AI features.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Well the need for all those other settings apparently nullifies that idea. Unless the people recommending that I turn off all those pieces are doing so solely out of paranoia and maybe it's redundant and unnecessary to turn off all but the main one. Which could be the case, maybe but I personally lean toward the paranoid side

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

    Up until this point, the hodgepodge of half-hidden settings was a necessity, because Mozilla hadn't rolled out the setting we had today. Every few months, Mozilla would announce a new AI feature, and onto the pile of things to disable it would go.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Is this setting on desktop only? I dont see it anywhere in the mobile version.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Hey FF devs, nobody wants this bullshit

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What are you talking about? I absolutely want a way to block all current and future AI features. Opt in would have been better instead of opt out, but hey, I'll take the wins I can get.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago

    Blocking means you can't see new or current AI features. Doesn't mean new or current AI features can't see you.

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