WE. DON'T. WANT. THIS.

Mozilla, for the love of god, stop cramming AI into the browser when the vast majority of your users just want a privacy-respecting browser that works.

I've said it before, and I've said it again: I will not donate any more money to the Mozilla foundation until they stop cramming AI into everything, and you should too.

Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

Come on, this isn't Reddit, at least skim the article before you start with the performative outrage.

Remember the way to disable all AI in Firefox.
about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false

As long as there is a easy way to disable it. And clearly communicated what they are doing. I do not begrudge mozilla trying to remain competitive with mainstream.

Nnnoooooo you dumb bastards

Just use a folk of it at this point. Zen, Floorp, Waterfox, LibreWolf, Fennec, and IronFox.

It's very sad as I don't think there's a proper alternative in short term. In the end, I am afraid that I'll have to keep using Firefox because it's essentially the "lesser evil",

Yall saw Microsoft push stupid Copilot on everyone and fail miserably and said, "hold my beer!"

Bros, take the hint! No one wants AI bullshit. Firefox was the goto switch when Google Chrome was using 37 processes and 98% memory for one website... yall are fuckin up!

Jfc. The stupidest timeline, I fucking swear.

As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.

WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.

Ew ew ew.

No one is asking for AI, you weirdos!

Firefox to evolve into not existing.

I just found out about this on mobile firefox must be quite new too. That default opt in is really disgusting.

If you're going to add AI shit it should be something people can easily turn on. It should be off by default.

Hey tech companies. Consumers do not want more AI, they want less of it. Maybe we just need to get the word out?

LibreWolf all the way

They're going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?

That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.

But why !? Chatbots are useful enough, I don't need AI anywhere else than when I explicitly choose to use it on my terms !

You wanna make money ? Make a chatbot that lies less and/or doesn't reinforce people into their delusions, or one that runs for cheaper, or both.

AI is useful. Just like knives are useful. Doesn't mean I want every object I own to also somehow be or contain multiple knives 😅

More often than not, a faster horse is actually all we need.

Waterfox. LibreWolf. Fennec.

Just use a fork; rawdogging Firefox is already a bit crazy.

I've been using Firefox for longer than i can remember. That said, I'm ready to make the leap if necessary. What's the next browser to succeed Firefox? Suggestions??

Over to Waterfox then.

I don't care if there is a way to 'disable it' (there won't be) - if it's there, it not on my PC.

Make sure you keep a list of all of these companies pushing ai bullshit. When the bubble pops, do not go back to them, do not give them anything, fuck them for being greedy idiots

I will gladly support initiatives that are anti-ai.

When talking about it earlier, they mentioned the integrated AI would be local-only... Which sounds better, but I doubt is even possible (imagine all the low-end devices attempting to generate a response or analyse the website on their 6-8-year old CPUs...).

Can't wait for ladybird to arrive to leave all this current browser crap behind me.

Ready for this internet fad to die and go back to stone tablets.