Broken record chiming in: it should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Wish they's just flip this switch themselves over at Mozilla and simply stop putting AI bullshit in the browser.
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.
Yep. It's rare enough that a technology company responds to feedback from their users that I think it deserves to be recognized when it does happen!
I think it was always a plan to try to push AI, and if it fails, give users an option to turn it off. They are not stupid, and they know that refusing to enable an option to turn it off would destroy them.
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.
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..?
Mozilla promises that if you flip this switch, they won't keep surprising you with new AI features.
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
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.
Is this setting on desktop only? I dont see it anywhere in the mobile version.
Hey FF devs, nobody wants this bullshit
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.
Translations, image alt text, voice to text, text to voice are all AI.
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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