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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    bro use another thing. don’t complain or suggest something should be different! Just abandon toot sweet. Seriously im in process of moving to either waterfox or librefox but the browser is practically an abstracted next level of the os so moving over is just a bit faster than moving my os. At least for my main browser.

      • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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        2 days ago

        Might just be a Firefox bug, since it’s a very light fork. Try Firefox and see if it does the same thing.

          • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
            1·
            2 days ago

            Well, you could import the same policies into Firefox that LibreWolf uses, or it might be some workaround in your graphics driver that acts on the filename of the Firefox executable.

            Obviously you don’t need to test, but just throwing out ideas if you would want to.

    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Better yet, just make a pull request. Its open source. Can build your own Firefox.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        xactly. or why even fork. just start building a new browser writing straight assembly or better yet bro code it with ai.

        • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          The source code is there. Why reinvent the wheel. Its like 2 or 3 commands to build it.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            oh building it straight up removes the ai? do builds ever fail? what are the three commands. I won’t need specific libraries or other requirments for my os yeah?

            • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              2 days ago

              Ezpz

              • Download source
              • Delete ai commits
              • Install deps per Firefox and OS docs
              • Build per Firefox and OS docs

              Now you won’t ever have to worry about it.

              Better yet, install Tor Browser or Mullvad browser and save yourself from typing 3 command lines.

              • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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                2 days ago

                im already moving to either waterfox or librefox. comes down to if my addons have any issue with either. hoping waterfox as I already sorta have waterfox for a specific setup I don’t want to change.

                • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  2 days ago

                  Ah well I wish you luck with the fingerprint issues with those two browsers. Weird to care about AI being in your browser but not about that, but I guess its better than Chrome.