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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 72 points 5 months ago (34 children)

Headline is misleading. That is one sentence from a list of three points.

  • First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
  • Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
  • Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

I think the more important statement, and one that I agree with, is in the first point.

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

If this is the goal then I agree. Mush as AI annoys me, I don't care if they build AI features into the browser. There are enough people that do want AI features for it makes sense to do so. But it needs to be optional. I don't want to have to keep going into about:config to disable AI features that should have been opt-in in the first place.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Sheesh. Out of the 20 comments in this thread this is the only one that actually addressed the contents of the article, the rest of them were all talking about what other browser they were using or going to be using now or just vaguely griping about how much they hate AI.

Are there any other Firefox communities that are actually about Firefox?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, sometimes it feels like folks are more obsessed about AI than Big Tech CEOs are. With native vertical tabs, tab groups, and the new profiles, there are more new things in Firefox I've been excited about than in the years before, but everybody's only talking about AI.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why not talk about that stuff instead of AI? That's on the new CEO, not the community.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm happy to criticise him for that too, but that doesn't mean that folks don't drag AI into every slightly related or even completely unrelated threads too.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

I wasn't aware that he was a moderator here, deciding what threads people create or comment on.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With native vertical tabs, tab groups, and the new profiles, there are more new things in Firefox I’ve been excited about than in the years before

This reads like marketing, but also other browsers have this stuff anyway? It's not a selling point anymore.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

It's just a list of recent additions I'm excited about. Of course they come on top of a browser I was already consciously using, so they're just there to sweeten the deal, not as unique selling points by themselves.

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