After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.
Mozilla said that all the AI features that are or will be included in Firefox will also be opt-in.
Finally some good Firefox news.
16 Comments
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 266d
How about shipping with an “alive” switch so I dont even have to think about this shit?
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 266d
Or a coupon that says .... you can install AI as an addition if you want to
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 266d
Cant wait for the back peddling to begin.
. We have changed our policy and some AI powered tools can no longer be disabled with the Kill Switch.
. The Kill Switch may not work on browser forks due to several changes made, you must be using base firefox to have access to this feature.
. We will no longer offer a kill switch in its current state, instead you will have limited access to disable some AI features one by one in the settings & config menus (good luck getting them all)
. AI is actually great, so we have decided to make it impossible for users to disable it... Fuck you, we know better than our customers.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 266d
Back peddling? This is enshitification.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 266d
Pathetic way to control the damage while saying "fuck you" to regular users.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 266d
A kill switch? Easy. Make it an extension. Then we can actually kill it.
Or like, keep lying, take that AI money and sell hot air. Sad.
limer@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 266d
If they are going to make AI the beating heart of the browser, like ceo said, then this will be as helpful as the JavaScript option to turn that off
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 266d
This whole thing feels like another Synology moment..
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 266d
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 266d
No need. Already replaced it.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 266d
I wish it was on by default.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 266d
or that you would need to install AI stuff as an extension or add-on
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 266d
Ok I realize I’m in “fuck AI” but what exactly is the point of implementing this? LLMs are not intelligent and don’t work most of the time. Why is Mozilla pushing for this?
sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 265d
about:config
browser.ml.enablefalseLudicrous0251@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 265d
So you're saying you want more analytics in Firefox???
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 266d
I wish we knew how many people have just one deliberate interaction with AI - which is to switch it off.