• Schwim Dandy@piefed.zip
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    9 hours ago

    There is something humorous to the fact that these users have waited until Firefox has begun the AI enshitification process before switching to it. It’s like they just had to wait until it was no longer the clear. Good choice before they made the switch.

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      5 hours ago

      The AI stuff is behind a switch I have not seen a single AI feature while using Firefix nor do I see any ads

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      7 hours ago

      Firefox lets you implicitly disable or remove them, slop browsers do not.

      I don’t like AI either but lets not pretend there’s an equivalency between these browsers.

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        But this is talking about users who switched to Firefox only AFTER being presented with a choice directly in their face. The Firefox AI options are turned on by default, and I can’t remember if it was easily guided to turn them off. So this group may not find that an easy solution, or find it at all.

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      Firefox has begun the AI enshitification process

      Dude, it’s like five things – one of which is just translations that can be performed locally, and another of which is an alt text accessibility option – with an obvious universal kill switch (and of course individualized ones). Calm your tits. Chill your balls. I don’t use LLMs at all except for translations, and I still think the whinging over this is completely overblown.

      “Begun” implies a slippery slope of much more, and that just doesn’t seem to be the case.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      FireFox was enhittified even before the AI bits: it fucking spies on you

      That’s why I use LibreWolf , which is literally just the latest-stable FF build, but with all the AI and telemetry ripped out, uBlock Origin and anti-fingerprinting enabled by default.

      It’s literally what FireFox was supposed to be. And they don’t even accept money . God level.