We recently shared how we are approaching AI in Firefox — with user choice and openness as our guiding principles. That’s because we believe AI should be built like the internet — open, accessible, and driven by choice — so that users and the developers helping to build it can use it as they wish, help shape it and truly benefit from it.
They give you the option to disable it. What more do you want? Custom builds where only the features you want built just for you?
A choice allows for saying no. Installing it anyway takes away your choice. Having to disable something you didn’t want to begin with puts the responsibility on the person that didn’t want it. Then you are responsible for keeping up with it hoping it doesn’t turn itself on in an update or send information somewhere regardless of being disabled.
A separate update/download for AI would actually give the user a choice.
Where do you draw the line? There’s tons of features in the browser. I don’t use bookmarks, so should I demand a version of Firefox without bookmarks? I don’t use profiles either.