Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You don’t actually believe that “don’t ever bother me about this again” is gonna be in the realm.of possibilities, do you? They’ll accidentally “forget” your choice on every second update and pester you again. Fuck mozilla.

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  • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What browser do you use?

    I’m getting a bit tired of website incompatibility with Firefox but when the alternative is Chrome, I’m sticking with FF.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am still stuck with Mozilla, but I hate the organisation nonetheless. :( It sucks that the web standards have been made so complicated (extensive) that it takes a major organisation to implement them in a browser.

      On the phone I use DDG browser, but not hapoy with it because ublock origin isn’t available.

      On computer I am frustrated that debian repos do not yet have a privacy friendly fork, such as (from what I hear) waterfox or LibreWolf.

      I am with you that Chrome-derivates are not an alternative at all.

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    • entwine@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      can you give an example of a website that doesn’t work in FF? I’ve been an exclusive FF user for many years (maybe at least 8), and I can’t remember ever encountering a compatibility issue. The worst is when a website lies about needing chrome, but if you change the useragent it works perfectly.

      Recently I switched to LibreWolf for better privacy, and that one has a lot of features disabled to combat fingerprinting. This does break a lot of sites, but ut’s easy to disable that in settings.

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      • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I cannot, because it’s not something I track. It’s usually some site ive only ever visited that once, worked around their shit engineering, and moved on with my life. So it’s not that specific sites don’t work, it’s that ive had to use Chrome or edge 6 times this year.

        I can’t remember a browser ever saying I needed chrome. Even Google Meet works fine…just functionality is reduced. A small price to pay for not giving Google the keys.

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  • Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, I can’t condemn you, I have only partially made the move myself for lack of options :(

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