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.
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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.
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.
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.
thanks. You have good luck with it to.
What fingerprint issues are you aware of?
https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox
Search “fingerprint” on the issues page. Read the “closed” issues as well, because all they did was close the issue and direct them to a discussion page.
Could you link to a real issue so we aren’t guessing about what we are looking at?
No. There are 30+ there.
I’m seeing closed bugs from 2021 here, are we supposed to take these seriously?
Its been a known issue for a while, yes.