Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox

• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You listed a lot of very interesting features and probably convinced me to install it and give it a try, thanks, but again, what faults?

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These are faults for most people. They’re benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it’s missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.

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    • blah3166@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If these features interest you, that’s great! But you’re not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most website-breaking features can be re-enabled in the Settings menu, in a special Librewolf section

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

      I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You have no dispute from me there. I just figured I would mention it to people who are already knowledgeable enough that a few switches won’t bother them - people already in this thread, probably not on the street

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  • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    disableable

    Interesting word

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a word according to wiktionary, and that’s good enough for me

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      • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Nice. That’s definitely good enough for both of us.

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