Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox

• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s pull some obvious ones from the feature list!

  • Include only privacy respecting search engines like DuckDuckGo and Searx.
  • Always force user interaction when deciding the download location of a file
  • Disable autoplay of media.
  • Disable search suggestions and ads in the urlbar.
  • Disable Firefox Sync, unless explicitly enabled by the user.

  For some other ones:

  • Logs you out of everything every time you close the browser.
  • If memory serves, it letterboxes by default. If it doesn’t, ignore this line, I haven’t used it in a while.

  I’m not saying I don’t like these features. I do. I only accept login cookies from services I host myself.

  Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.

  Most people care enough about privacy to want convenient ways to increase it. Most people do not care enough about privacy to have to log into Facebook every single time they restart their browser.

  All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.

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