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[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 minute ago

You should see how AI is being deployed in warfare. Plausible deniability is about to go through the roof.

Back in the day, you get out jail free card was on a scale of "the devil made me do it" to "I was following orders", now we get "It was AI"

Seeing AI invade open source is sad. AI slop contributions. AI integration that no one asked for.

For now Firefox derivatives are fine (I use LibreWolf), but many of those derivatives don't work on macOS because it "fails to verify that this executable is actually executable" (what does that actually mean?????????).

I had hopes for Ladybird Browser but now it's being vibe coded (rewritten in rust by ai for no reason whatsoever), and it's not ready yet anyway. Now I'm hopeful for Servo engine. It's in development but at some point it will be ready, and it bans slop contributions.

Most pointed questions you type will start a Google search1. This loads a regular search results page, and sees Firefox’s AI chatbot shift to a sidebar on the right. The AI reads the top results (including any AI overview), and produces a response based on them.

AI reads AI reading AI reading AI reading AI reading...

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Companies at every layer are competing, from the OS, to the browser, to the website so you can experience triple the spam.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 49 minutes ago

Soon your OS will get into a never ending loop with the browser and the website.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 28 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Do yourself a favour and use LibreWolf or WaterFox instead.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 37 minutes ago

Or just keep using Firefox and don't use the entirely optional and opt-in features you don't need. The same as always.

I'm completely flabbergasted why people get their panties in a twist over

  • completely local features that happen to be backed by machine learning models (the translation feature is a huge privacy win over sending your text to Google translate)
  • opt-in LLM integration that nobody forces you to use
[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Or further favourable: Konform Browser.

Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser also worthy mentions.

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago
[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago (27 children)

So sad for Firefox. I try to keep using since it’s the only solution free of Chromium, but I guess chromium will control everything only Safari will not be chromium.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Librefox, waterwolf, mullvad, fennec?

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

What is this, a cutlery drawer?

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