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Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 (9to5linux.com)
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Mozilla finally landed today the long-anticipated AI Kill Switch controls for Firefox, which let users strip the open-source web browser of any AI-powered features, and you can test it right now in Firefox Nightly.

In December 2025, when Mozilla appointed its new CEO, the company developing the popular Firefox web browser revealed that it was working on an AI kill switch that would let users completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases, estranging more and more loyal users.

Now, the AI kill switch is finally a reality as it landed today with the latest Firefox Nightly update. The implementation is called “AI Controls” and can be found in Firefox’s settings as a standalone section. From there, users can toggle a setting called “Block AI Enhancements” to remove any AI features.

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[–] stormesp@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did they ever tackle all the data collection they introduced? iirc it was opt out not opt in

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Nope.... And ads built in is still a thing

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Where?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago

Sponsored stories, sponsored top shortcuts, even the weather is sponsored. There used to be an "off" switch directly in the NTP settings, but they pushed it into the settings menu.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There a bunch of sponsored stuff on the new tab page they get paid for.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

... Those can be removed with a few clicks, mate.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

They sure can.... They shouldn't be there at all however

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm curious how you think Mozilla should provide a 100% free product with the things everyone wants without paying any developers?

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are you serious? Mozilla gets almost a billion dollars a year from Google. Stop posting if you are this clueless.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

And why do they get this money?

Partially to keep Google as the default search, isn't it?

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 42 minutes ago

more than partially actually. 85% of Mozillas income comes from search engine deals.Then when you look at the revenue reports for the year, its stated in it that.

Approximately 85% and 81% of Mozilla’s revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Receivables from that one customer represented 70% and 64% of the December 31, 2023 and 2022 outstanding receivables, respectively.

I'm no accountant and while Google is not specified. That sounds like the signs are pointing at google being 85% of the projects income.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are you a bot?

[–] stormesp@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What the hell, i didnt know about that, i guess im still happy with Librewolf

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Same here