Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox
ninepointeight@lemmy.ml 5 days agoI wish more people realized that using a simple policies.json file can easily transform their Firefox to behave more like LibreWolf out of the box, meaning (as someone else mentioned earlier):
- telemetry disabled by default
- AI features disabled by default
- uBlock Origin enabled out-of-the-box
It is sad (and funny) that people are calling Mozilla and Firefox shady but then installing Firefox-based “forks” from random 3rd parties. I wonder how many people realize that “forks” like LibreWolf are not patching the spooky AI or telemetry source code out of the browser at all, they are pretty much just shipping Firefox with their opinionated custom configurations and a different branding.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
That is what Linux distributions do too.
Some people like to install Debian and configure it how they like. That’s fine. Some people like to install a distro that pre-configures Debian. That is the beauty of open-source.