Mozilla's AI Shake to Summarize is announcing itself via a blue dot in the menu and a pop-up when you visit articles. Neither the popup, the confirmation dialog, nor the new menu item mention AI.

Summarize to Shake

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[โ€“] 32 points 6 months ago (9 children)

is there any successful case of the "shake your device" interaction? seems like a bad ux, and i don't know of any app or operating system which uses it.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 6 months ago*

    seems like a bad ux

    I'd guess at least someone at Mozilla is aware of that, but accidentally triggering Ai features looks mostly the same on telemetry as purposefully triggering Ai.

    So think of that what you will.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I really miss the shake for flashlight feature androids used to have. But I can't think of another iteration that makes sense.

    I even liked the twist to launch the camera thing.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I thought that's only a Moto thing?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 months ago

    I find it effective for 'feedback' (bug reports/feature requests) sometimes because it can automatically screenshot parts of the app that wouldn't typically have a UI to send feedback on it, for example a menu, where a feedback option listed in the menu would always capture what's behind the menu instead.

    Of course it would be even easier if I could just upload screenshots I manually took myself, but Google hates that idea apparently.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    So, what browser do people prefer on Android?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 6 points 6 months ago

    For something FF based? Waterfox is pretty good these days. If you're looking for other options, the FFUpdater app provides a slough of them in categories (from "good for privacy" to "better than Chrome")

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