Bold of them when they put enabled by default AI garbage in firefox without the communities consent.
This would be a lot more meaningful if mozilla leadership was positioned strictly against this shitty tech.
In firefox they are enabled by default in the sense that you can get to them via the UI unless you flip some settings, but they don’t do anything unless you use them, including not even downloading the models until first use. So yes, I would prefer firefox not have them (except local translation which uses a local model instead of shipping it off to a remote service, which is a useful feature that is better then the alternative ways to do it), but I wouldn’t say it’s as far as hypocrisy.
I’d rather they let me know that there is an add-on I “could” add that will add AI tools to my browser, if I wanted
They twisted my arm trying to get my consent for the new ToS.
Luckily I was able to get itoabout:configand set the flag to disable the ToS-banner.
Fuck that.Wait, you can disable the banner without accepting your new terms? Do teach.
in the adress bar enter
about:config. The flag which seems to control the banner were:termsofuse.bypassNotification->true(very sure about that)browser.termsofuse.prefMigrationCheck->true(not sure about that)
It’s worse than that. I have uninstalled that shit every day for the past month off the same computer, and it just pops right back on within 24 hours.
I had to use regedit to get rid of it. I still have a win11 boot disk, but I mostly run kubuntu now. Forty years of Microsoft being my primary operating system has come to a close. One drive and Copilot drove me away.
Funny hearing this criticism from Mozilla though.
That won’t work. You need a cron job.
/M$
Hmmm…what about the VPN plugin I didnt ask for?
Why again did you put this in the UI front and center without just asking me “Hey, we’ve got our own VPN. Want to pin it to your tool bar?”
No we need to figure out how to tell our clients what to do with it or findout how to automatically get rid of it.They need to earn money to pay developers. The Google deal isn’t going to hold forever and has been a pain point for a long time.
Why again did you put this in the UI front and center without just asking me “(…)”
Man…Reading comprehension really took a nose dive on lemmy.
You don’t understand business. Your own reaction is the best display for why they should not and did not implement this as a one-time question just as you proposed. As you proposed, notably, so that you have the easiest possible way to disregard it.
You don’t understand business.
May be. Bur I understand user satisfaction.
And I, for instamce, don’t like being bombarded with “HEY! :D WE’VE GOT THIS NEW TOOL YOU MIGHT WANNA TRY”Have you ever contributed to Firefox?
Open source is a multiplayer game.
“Close your window.”
Personal data breaches… using users’ information without their permission… Installing something on a user’s device without their consent… Forcing a user to buy something, forcing them to acquire a license… Making things difficult for the user when they try to install an application that is not part of Windows’ own ecosystem… So on…
Bill “Magic” Gates at 1984:
