• hubobes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    01·
    3 months ago

    And at some point someone will tell me what is so horrifying about these new features? Mozilla might be the only company trying to provide privacy first AI features. What exactly is so bad here? You can even disable these features if you do not like them at all.

    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The problem is that they’re pushing it without any way for those of us who really don’t want that crap to strip it out of the browser. I don’t want all this ai garbage, never asked for it, and am harassed at every corner by every fucking company thinking it’s somehow going to change the world.

      Sure, Mozilla allows you to turn off some of these features, but I’ve already had it reenabled in updates after previously disabling it. Further, many of the settings are buried in about:config, which is not a user-friendly way to make those changes. At best, these functionalities should be opt-in and presented as addons that can be installed, rather than being a core part of the browser that cannot be removed.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        It is opt in. Or will be. And they’re adding an AI switch.

        Not disagreeing with you, just adding context.

        The bigger problem is that they’re wasting their finite resources on this crap instead of adding actually cool features like their forks are doing.

        • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          They keep saying their ai features will be opt-in, and yet everything they’ve rolled out so far is opt-out. I struggle to believe future ‘features’ will be any different. Maybe it’s opt-in in the sense that I’m not required to click whichever button activates it, like whatever they added to the context menu, but that’s not really what opt-in means and degrades my trust in Mozilla.

          I’m also frustrated by their seeming inability to focus on their core browser product and building a popular competitor to chromium browsers instead of going off on side quests.

          • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago
            • You still have the extra bloat in memory.
            • it shows a lack of focus on core issues rather than adding “cool” features.
            • Can you actually trust that switching it off will disable it in every place they’ve incorporated it, not just now, but also in future?

            There are undoubtedly other issues too.

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      There is no such thing as a privacy first AI, unless you’ve the hardware to run the model yourself (and, you don’t).

      • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        There different kinds of AI and some run just fine locally or even on mobile. Not everything is a big LLM.