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Firefox for Web Developers
@webdevs.firefox.com

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

Firefox for Web Developers
@webdevs.firefox.com

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous. …

Firefox for Web Developers
@webdevs.firefox.com

I'm not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is. But I do ask that you don't have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we're going to do the wrong thing here. …

🌚 #CancelRent
@maunciple.devil.computer

i set browser.ml.enabled to false when this started and yesterday i held leftclick on a link and it asked if i wanted to enable ai summaries. I think if you go to the effort of turning off ai in about:config it should float any other slop crap in an effort to boost discovery

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@maunciple.devil.computer

if i turn the sloption off, i am never going to want to see it anywhere, and as far as i can tell that feature (the longpress link for summary) got pushed after all the initial blowback. which is why people have antifaith, and I think thats fair