In my books that comment was far from complainong about damage control.
Just a objective observation.
OP said that they are happy if true.
Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 months agoFirefox just can’t win with their users.
- Mozilla makes decisions based on market data
- Users complain they never wanted those features
- Mozilla makes a decision based on user feedback
- Users shit on them for backpedaling or damage control
It’s absurd.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
deathbird@mander.xyz 2 months ago
What have they decided based on market data?
I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn’t want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.
Frankly I don’t know what’s going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it’s missing as far as I can think of.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pointing something out is not shitting on them
fluxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, it’s not. 1. Nobody wanted AI as a feature. 2. They didn’t even completely backpedal, that would be not implementing AI. This sounds like it will be opt out maybe. They may remove it if they feel like it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not implementing any AI is stupid.
I for one appreciate having offline, private language translation. Sending it to a Google Translate server is a privacy nightmare.
My sister appreciates the better screen-reader functionality.
Plenty of people do want AI features.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hahahahahaha, he thinks none of this data will be sold 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it’s literally the only reason to spend all this money developing it
fluxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Translation is already a part of Firefox and I don’t see too many have complained about this. It is also completely offline, AFAIK. What people are afraid, myself included is agentic AI capable of autonomous web browsing. That is a privacy and security nightmare, as is already demonstrated by openai’s browser, which was exploited the first day it was launched. Beyond translation, I personally am not interested in any other AI features. In fact, I don’t use the translation feature more than a few times a year.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This is false, you don’t speak for everybody and represent a small vocal minority of users.
fluxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you then a part of a vocal majority? Have you personally asked or been asked by Mozilla about AI features? What features are you exactly missing? See, I’m not against AI, but I am against needless, brainless hype following AI. I use AI, almost daily. But I’m not missing any of the features in the browser. Hell, most of the time, I’m using chatgpt from the browser. That’s all I need and dont exactly have an idea what more I would need? OCR a page? Extract an image? That all could fit in an extension, which I claim almost no one would use. What does AI browser even mean? I don’t speak for everyone but it doesn’t mean I don’t have at least an intuition that these are all empty words and that almost no one has asked for an “AI browser”. And of those that did, I’m not sure they know what they mean by that, other than general curiosity about what an AI browser might look like, likely directly influenced by the hype, themselves.