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Quit shoving this AI stuff down our throats, Mozilla. Even a simple opt out is missing.
I get the sentiment but it does not seem appropriate in this case‽
2/14 features in the article are related to slop. The other 12 are actual, genuine improvements; some of them quite significant if you ask me.
Blame where blame is due but please don't forget to praise where praise is due too.
I counted one more, and there's a couple others I take umbrage at.
AI-only features:
Monopoly-only features:
AI-"enhanced" features:
What AI did you get opted into?
(As someone not particularly into AI, I'm happy to see that the majority of the features listed here are not AI, and many of them are actually useful. I love vertical tabs and tab groups.)
https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/
That just removes some buttons, but AFAICS no AI would have been running if you did not toggle those settings?
I don't know what you are defending here. ML = "machine learning". The first one enables or disables machine learning: a broad strokes API that plugs generative models into Firefox. It is the first step. Yes: a sidebar is innocuous. I still use it myself. However, I have the machine learning chat sidebar disabled so that they cannot shove whatever generative prompts, etc in my face based on their contractual agreement with Google.
I'm mostly questioning the statement that "opt in is missing", as I haven't needed to opt out of anything. The only ML that's enabled for me is something I opted into, which implies that that's not missing.
the way i see it: all companies are being showered w money if they adopt AI somehow and mozilla could use it; i'm good w this keeping mozilla afloat for longer until the ai hype goes away.
You can shut them down from config. But yeah
In twelve obfuscated steps! This is dark pattern design, not even simply poor usability design of opt-out.
the right-click menu has "disable ai features" in it. it's the button below "ask an ai"
That's a decent place, I guess! I probably don't see that in the right click menu because I have everything disabled.
yeah it disappears when you click it.