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AI controls is coming to Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

No. Listening to the community would involve not polluting the browser with that shit in the first fucking place.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Translations? Tab grouping? Link previews?

    These very simple features (which have nothing to do with imaginary "AI") are probably useful to lots of people.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    The thing is, those features are older than LLMs (as in they've been implemented elsewhere). The only one of these that an LLM is even conceivably useful for is translation. I don't need firefox to tell me how to group my tabs- I'll group them in the way I want, when I want to do so.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think the main normie user kinda wants AI stuff? I guess most current Firefox users are some kind of nerd, but Mozilla would like to get to normie users again, which are clearly the bigger share of all users, soo..

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    No, they don't. They just take whatever they get served. The only ones wanting are the ones not wanting it, the others will just use whatever they get. This move won't get them users, if anything, they will loose and fragment their userbase even more.

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