That’s opt out, and they repeatedly added in new AI features and flags, some defaulted either way
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tlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoIt’s always been disableable… y’all just need them to spell it out for you.
risottobias@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think its way more likely that the people taking issue with the addition of an AI agent into their browser has nothing to do with whether or not they have to use it or can turn it off; at least for me that is true.
Firefox has limited resources, and can only work on so much at a time. They’ve got a list of open issues a mile long, some of them probably older than some of the people reading this. I would rather they focus their efforts on keeping their tools as sharp as possible rather than making additional dull tools.
Also consider that the Firefox user base is almost entirely people who chose to use it over other bundled browsers. When they see the things they fled from in the other browsers coming to consume the one they fled to, it is obnoxious to say the least. Their users like Firefox because of its many differences from others, so the more like them it gets, the less they like it.
Open yourself to the possibility that some of AI’s detractors dislike it for reasons you mat not understand, even though you may think you do.