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TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.

If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.

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[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What fingerprint issues are you aware of?

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox

Search "fingerprint" on the issues page. Read the "closed" issues as well, because all they did was close the issue and direct them to a discussion page.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Could you link to a real issue so we aren't guessing about what we are looking at?

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm seeing closed bugs from 2021 here, are we supposed to take these seriously?

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Its been a known issue for a while, yes.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Then go fix them