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I tried Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ in a beta build (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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It sounds like your AI needs could be satisfied with a Firefox extension that could be optional to you and not shoved down everyone else's throat. Based on your description of the Web, it sounds like you need to take a trip there and configure a dozen things anyway.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Installing an extension for an occasional use-case like this is not quicker than what I did.

    I do of course have extensions installed (including the canonical ad-blocker that you use too). I've been on the web since the 90s and was a full-time frontend developer for a decade until quite recently, so I'm hardly the ignoramus you're making me out to be. From the same facts I just come to different conclusions to you. It happens.

    If Firefox offers an off-switch for the features you don't want (it does) then where is the "forcing down throats"? If this amazing project doesn't survive because it refused to move with the world around it, then you won't even have that off-switch and you'll regret being so obstinate.

    PS I see the downvotes, maybe it wasn't you but I consider downvoting toxic so that's all I have to say here. You've made your point and I did understand it.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Installing an extension for an occasional use-case like this is not quicker than what I did.

    I do of course have extensions installed (including the canonical ad-blocker that you use too).

    So you're the target demographic (not a very big one) and even your use case is a one-off?

    And apparently you use an ad blocker all the time... but you're pushing for AI to be default and not ad blocking?

    PS I see the downvotes, maybe it wasn't you

    It's not me... and I can see the names of the people who downvote, and if you try hard enough, you can see it's not me too.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago*

    I'm not "pushing for" anything except more control to the user. Where's the contradiction? I was skeptical about AI chatbots (stochastic parrots etc) but it's got to the point where the utility is impossible to deny. A one-stop-shop answer to any question, which is probably right and shows its sources, that's a pretty amazing innovation. Huntnig for information is a lot of my web usage, so I absolutely see the point of putting that prompt alongside the one for URLs and search terms and even for merging it all one day (the first two were once separate prompts too, let's remember). This is clearly the direction of the web whether we like it or not, and with more voice interface since young people hardly know how to write any more. The role of Mozilla IMO is not to stop this new world singlehandedly, it's to give us more control over it.

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