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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it (dragonscave.space)
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Oh my fucking god. I just right clicked a link to an article to open it in a new tab in Firefox and saw an option to "Ask an AI Chatbot (Z)." Fucking EW. There was thankfully an option to remove it from my context menu, but oh my fucking god, AI bros are so fucking desperate to adopt this tech en masse, I swear to god.

Let the fucking bubble burst, nobody fucking likes generative-AI and making it goddamn inescapable is not going to make us like it. Let it go the way of NFT and the metaverse like it goddamn deserves. If generative-AI was genuinely that fucking good, people would naturally adopt it like we did with computers. Companies did not have to work this hard to get people to adopt computers because their purpose and value was obvious.

And @mozilla, @firefox please for the love of god, stop adding AI features. I get you're partially funded by Google, but grow a goddamn spine and listen to your users. People do not like these features and expect better from you. Firefox is supposed to be about privacy and generative-AI is NOT good for privacy (do I even need to mention Windows Recall?) You wanna be the alternative to Google so bad, yet you do the same scummy, disliked sh!t everyone hates Google for.

#generativeAI #SlightRant #AI #Firefox #Criticism #FuckAI

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[-] nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 3 points 1 day ago

@Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox What are you talking about? Mozilla saw that everyone was going to their browser to get away from Google, so naturally they did the intelligent thing and became more like Google. I mean, it makes perfect sense, right?

There is a setting in about:config to completely disable it, but I'd recommend that you switch to a fork like LibreWolf on PC or IronFox on Android to ensure stuff like that will be disabled to begin with even if later updates would turn it on.

[-] Zander@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 day ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox Is IronFox similar to LibreWolf default settings profile? I haven't heard of that one & i hate that #librewolf isn't on android...

[-] nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2 points 1 day ago

@Zander @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox Yes, I'd say they're fairly similar. It's a fork of the mobile version of Firefox, so it's kind of a different beast in its own way, but they take similar views and methods on privacy and security.

[-] Zander@infosec.exchange 1 points 1 day ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox Hell-Yeah! I'll look it up on fdroid or aurora store. Thanks! 😉

[-] nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 1 points 1 day ago

@Zander @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox It should be on F-Droid all the time now (it wasn't for a while, but I think it's there to stay) but if it ever isn't, you can also get it from Accrescent if you want to avoid the one on Google Play. Not sure if it makes a difference or not. (I know that being off of the Play Store forces not using Google services and such, but they very likely don't even in that version. I'm not sure though. I used to manually install it, but now just maintain via F-Droid while that lasts.

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