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AI controls is coming to Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 days ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 72 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

I'll just leave this here

https://librewolf.net/

It's FireFox but

  • no telemetry/spying-on-you
  • no AI
  • uBlock Origin enabled

In other words, it's the open source browser Mozilla was always supposed to be.
Plus it's typically not more than 12 hrs behind any FF release.

Accept one of our free tanks ! They get 100 MPG and go 100 MPH over any terrain!

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (16 children)

people (not calling you out specifically) keep suggesting Librewolf like it isn't driving around a city in a tank. it gets the job done, sure, but most people will not tolerate its faults. Suggest something more in-between like Waterfox at least.

Suggesting Librewolf is like asking people to browse the web via Tor. it works, sure, but the inconvenience will make most people give up on gecko-based browsers and give into Google/chrome via Brave or the million other chrome-in-sheep's-wool browsers.

Let's recommend viable alternatives: https://www.waterfox.com/

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What kind of inconviniences? I have experienced literally none - except you may need to enable DRM. That's one then

[–] blah3166@piefed.social -1 points 3 days ago

DRM is one. On Windows it doesn't auto-update by default (maybe that's changed now?). I recall you have to whitelist some sites to work properly. It's just not something I can set up for my parents and expect most/all websites to work without intervention.

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