Although this has been heavily downvoted, the author has a point: what do private, safe AI experiences in a software mean for the common browser user? How does a company that was founded as an ‘alternative’ to a default browser take the same approach? For those that do and will use the tech indiscriminately, what’s next for them?
Just as cookie/site separation became a default setting in FF eventually, or the ability to force a more secure private DNS, what could Mozilla consider to prevent abuse, slop, LLM-syncophantism and deception, undesired data training, tracking, and more?
It’s simple… Don’t want it, don’t use it. There, problem solved! Now get over it…
This could have been an extension downloaded by only the people who want it. What is it called when software ships with random shit nobody wanted or asked for and can’t be removed? Oh right! Bloatware!
If I wanted an “AI browser” or a browser with every feature under the sun related to web browsing or not, I’d be using Edge. Nobody is choosing Firefox because they want the same experience as a big tech corporate browser, they’d choose an actual big tech corporate browser in that case.
You clearly doesn’t know what bloatware is. But I guess you’d like a CLI-interface, to browse the web… You can get that, but you wouldn’t like it much.
Why disable it, when you don’t have to use it? It’s not critical in any way.
You seem like a swell guy, that likes to complain about every little thing you don’t like… I bet you don’t even donate some money to Firefox, but only expect them to provide you with free software that you can removed about…
Induced demand. Having it there means people will use it, doesn’t mean they wanted to or asked Firefox to add it.
