Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just opened setting on a firefox tab, clicked on the three lines in the upper right, and the settings. There is not AI controls in there, and searching settings didn’t pull up any ai thing.

  This is like when I tried to take gemini off of my phone, it’s hidden, instructions online didn’t work, the links didn’t exist on my phone. It’s still on there, but hasn’t turned itself on multiple times when I somehow swiped or hit something as it did a year ago or so a bunch.

  It should be opt in not work to opt out and we hid the way to do that.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe the article was written by AI that hallucinated the setting.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can vouch for the page being there on my Firefox 148 on the desktop.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh, maybe I need to wait for firefox to update or for me to restart the computer if they just did it. I’m also running an older version of windows I think, I don’t even know which one actually but they tried to upgrade me for free and I told them no a couple of years back.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think they just did it. Menu > Help > About will tell you if you’re on 148 and probably help you update if you want.

        I was also presented with a giant “you can opt out of AI” tab after I updated.

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• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  On Android or iOS? I’m pretty sure the iOS app is just a re-skinned Safari, isn’t it?

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same in Europe but I don’t think Mozilla spent the time and effort needed to bring Gecko to iOS. So it’s still just a reskinned WebKit.

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      • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well there you go. Hopefully they get around to overthrowing the mobile webkit overlords soon enough

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  • doug@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is!? Noooooooo! TIL

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All iOS browsers are webkit under the hood (aka “reskinned safari”)

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      • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yep. It’s a choice Apple users make (probably unknowingly, to be fair) when they choose Apple.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Are you on FF148?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Supposedly. Says 148 in About.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pretty sure this is about desktop. Mobile doesn’t have the same kind of features, if at all. Does Mobile have anything else besides local translation?

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• rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can’t see it either.
  I’m on 147.0.4 but there’s no option to update it on play store.
  How can I update it to 148?

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