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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 81 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Well, I still haven't seen any AI in my Firefox and I'm planing on using it until I will.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 53 points 8 months ago (23 children)

Hold your click for at least one second on any link and it will show a preview of the link and suggest you to use AI to describe it

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[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 111 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I genuinely thought you said "hold your dick for at least one second"

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Time to pull out a hammer

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

STOP! HAMMER TIME!

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 26 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Settings > scroll down to "General" > look at the options under "Enable link previews". You can turn the previews off altogether or just turn off the AI part

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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is a defence only until it isn't - although thank you for the tip.

That's how Windows has been going for years - adding more and more crap and make it all default enabled, and people are like "Oh just turn it off bro."

Then every update adds more unwanted options that get increasingly difficult to turn off, or randomly turn themselves back on, and before you know it we've reached a point where every new install soon needs an entire checklist to go through to make things actually usable again.

That is not how life should be. I want something that respects me by default, and if it wants me to try a feature I might find even slightly objectional, I should have to explicitly opt-in and say YES.

Firefox is setting a precedent by moving in this direction, and they've showed their hand. There's only more where this came from, and I won't tolerate it, even if I can turn it off.

When the Firefox terms and conditions drama happened some months back, that was the push I needed to switch to Librewolf. It's a Firefox fork with privacy-respecting settings out of the gate, no sponsored content, no ads, uBlock pre-installed, and absolutely zero AI. If you're a Firefox user, I recommend you try it too.

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

There are a bunch of flags in about:config you can check as well, if you wanna be extra sure they're turned off. Just search for browser.ml. There are more but this was all I could capture in one screenshot. Bold means I had to change it, which means it was on by default. That said I'm using CachyOS repos, not the direct Arch ones.

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 71 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Save us ~~Ladybird~~ Servo, you're our only hope.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk [S] 186 points 8 months ago (47 children)

Too bad it's made by someone who promotes 'great replacement' theory and stands with fascists.

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[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What about Servo?

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 61 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Waterfox it is.

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[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Long ago, the Four Fox Nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Firefox Nation attacked.

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[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new developer, a script kiddy named Aang. And although his python skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.

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[–] FranciscoLopez@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (1 child)

They’re not perfect, but having a real alternative engine matters more than people realize.

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[–] mtpender@piefed.social 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

OK, what happened?

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[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago (3 children)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozillas-new-ceo-its-time-to-evolve-firefox-into-an-ai-browser

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I really hope Firefox gets forked, and ends up like OpenOffice

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[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago (1 child)

zipzap your wish is granted:

https://librewolf.net/

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[–] Vintor@retrolemmy.com 37 points 8 months ago (7 children)

LibreWolf is not a fork, though. It's a customised version of FF, so every shit they introduce has to be painstakingly removed by the LW team, provided that is even possible. (See Manifest V3 in Chrome.)

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It's literally impossible to maintain a modern browser without extreme funding and competent engineers

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[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

“AI should always be a choice—something people can easily turn off." “It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”

How does he not get how contradictory these positions sound. Really a missed opportunity to brand themselves as the browser without AI bullshit and gain users who want to get away from that crap. Sure, they promise it'll have an off switch, but even if that's true, they're still wasting a lot of their very limited budget pursuing it. Really shows where their priorities are.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Yeah I'm switch off Firefox finally. I tried Floorp it does have some the same AI stuff you have to turn off. Waterfox doesn't have it in at all. So Waterfox it is.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I could never not use zen or the similar browsers

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[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 23 points 8 months ago

I hope enough people remain on this AI infested ghost ship that it can keep providing a base for librewolf.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago

tbf, firefox left the room years ago.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

LibreWolf looks good these days.

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

https://chaos.social/@librewolf/115716906957137196