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Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" (connect.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 months ago by UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that's on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It is very privacy friendly [...]

What makes you believe that? The most information I could find about this is that it doesn't "save your session data." The Orbit privacy policy also seems a bit bare, and I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.

Either way, you're still sending data to a third party service to process. Might be worth it for some people.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No association with any account. Therefore, no profiling.

[–] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Facebook and Google profile you with no account. Accounts aren't required for tracking.