Hey, Firefox - go fuck yourself.
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Hey, Firefox - go fuck yourself. If I wanted to use Perplexity as a search engine in your browser (I don’t) I would’ve added it myself. You didn’t need to add it, enable it by default, and make me have to go figure out what this new random button in my search bar is. AI, like most new unproven tech, should be informed opt-in, not forcibly opt-out.
Assholes.
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Hey, Firefox - go fuck yourself. If I wanted to use Perplexity as a search engine in your browser (I don’t) I would’ve added it myself. You didn’t need to add it, enable it by default, and make me have to go figure out what this new random button in my search bar is. AI, like most new unproven tech, should be informed opt-in, not forcibly opt-out.
Assholes.
@izzyamar@beige.party The Register has had a number of articles over the last six months about how utterly disconnected the Mozilla Foundation's leadership has become from Firefox's actual userbase. El Reg used the word "rudderless" more than once.
Mozilla's "leaders" don't seem to understand that if they eliminate from Firefox all of the reasons that people use it, people will no longer have any reason to use it. -
@izzyamar@beige.party The Register has had a number of articles over the last six months about how utterly disconnected the Mozilla Foundation's leadership has become from Firefox's actual userbase. El Reg used the word "rudderless" more than once.
Mozilla's "leaders" don't seem to understand that if they eliminate from Firefox all of the reasons that people use it, people will no longer have any reason to use it.@izzyamar@beige.party Afterthought: I saw a post just the other day listing all of the about:config options to set false to both speed up Firefox browsing AND disable all current 'AI' features. But I can't find it again now.
A good start is to go into about:config, put browser.ml in the search bar, and toggle EVERY browser.ml.*.enabled option that comes up to false, plus every true/false option ('.enabled' or otherwise) under browser.ml.chat. -
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