Mozilla has publicly criticized Microsoft for deploying its AI assistant, Copilot, onto Windows systems without user consent, a practice the Firefox maker describes as prioritizing corporate revenue over user rights.
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.
They twisted my arm trying to get my consent for the new ToS.
Luckily I was able to get ito about:config and set the flag to disable the ToS-banner.
Fuck that.
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 ito
about: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)