Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

• korendian@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is opt in, this article is click bait.

  Directly from the horses mouth:

  "In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience. You decide when, how or whether to use it at all. You’ve already seen this approach in action through some of our latest features like the AI chatbot in the sidebar for desktop or Shake to Summarize on iOS. "

  blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We’ll just ignore the fact that the chat bot menu setting randomly appeared after an update. Very opt in. The only way to kill the task it sparks is to go into about:config and kill all the browser.ml.* options.

    No one here cares what Firefox says because their actions have already hurt the trust in them.

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    • aloofPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Do the processes still run even if you toggle the setting off?

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      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Just going through settings was not enough. The process was still running. I don’t know which toggle fully killed it because I clicked everything off at once.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except I literally had to dig through the about: config settings to turn off AI in my browsing experience. So they are already lying

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I didn’t. So why is that?

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah yes, the classic:

      They must be maliciously lying instead of me using something wrong argument.

      Very solid, much sound.

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      • gid@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I can flip that around for you: “Ah yes, the classic: the user must be in the wrong, not the organisation with a history of secretly installing an extension nobody asked for”.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ah yes, the classic:

        This must be a single user with an edgecase problem instead of something that a lot of people actively have a problem with

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      • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If it’s so easy to “use wrong” then it’s badly designed software.

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Any articles can be a click bait. The reality is what matters.

    I didnt turn on AI in Firefox myself. It just appeared there after an update and was turned on. It is not opt in but an opt out.

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