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Say NO to AI in the #Firefox browser - have your say here; (mas.erb.pw)
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Say NO to AI in the #Firefox browser - have your say here;

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 45 points 5 days ago (15 children)

People hate the term AI and so Mozilla were always going to struggle with providing modern functionality, as let's face it, the Internet is embracing AI whether we like it or not

There's AI in many forms in Firefox such as how it predicts the page you want to revisit from the address bar and translates content locally on device. If these AI capabilities were moved to extensions, it would probably significantly reduce the benefit users get from Firefox and likely prevent other useful features such as privacy preserving AI alternatives.

This is poignant. AI as we know it is basically what we were calling machine learning a couple years ago. The same people that are very vocally complaining about the advent of a smarter browser, are the same people that bemoan Mozilla for depending on Google for financing. Somehow they want a browser that only the most devout privacy evangelists would use and they want a browser that is self-sustained through diverse deals, none of which they're able to see or feel.

I feel like there's a lot of disingenuous Firefox supporters who want a utopia browser and refuse to allow Mozilla to do anything to evolve the browser. These same people talk up all the Firefox forks and that change a few defaults and yet bemoan everything Mozilla does that makes those forks possible. It's boring.

  • I want a browser with on device translations.
  • I want a browser with smart page suggestions.
  • I want a browser that's able to summarise articles.
  • I want a browser that can fact-check pages.
[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

Don't forget, they want all of that in a nice, neat, FOSS package, which they will not contribute one dollar or a single line of code to.

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