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You already had my faith. For decades. But you've already done the wrong thing here, and that reveals Firefox has already lost it's way.

It is also a spyware that steals our information and destroys our privacy, both things mozilla was supposed to protect. Can't stress enough how "it does not have AI" has been THE sales pitch for Firefox lately, it's what made people change from chrome to it and you all ruined it. And we WILL leave.

I see you don't personally work on this so, you know, hand all my ire off to whoever deserves it.

should not** float

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

Not sure if it is still completely up to date, but I followed flamedfury.com/posts/disabl... and haven't seen anything about AI summaries. It really shouldn't need to be this complicated.

Of course. I mean, it's not like you have a history of doing the wrong thing by sneaking in "AI" junk enabled by default with not only no kill switch but that I have to rummage in about:config to turn off. Or is it?

This isn't rocket science, and it isn't complicated, we don't want this shit, you knew that ahead of time, you did it anyways. No need for a huge thread, do better.

We're not making assumptions you dipshits, you've straight up announced you're going to do the wrong thing. Embracing this plagiarism fueled digital snake oil is a bad decision, no matter how many options you include to turn it off

Exactly! You wind up with the whole class of people who refuse the LLM stuff getting much less dev time overall if the devs put so much time into just doing LLM features. And when the CEO says Firefox will be an ‘ai-first’ browser or whatever, that’s probably what’s happening.

Bruh I've already uninstalled your software across all my devices. You tanked your goodwill immediately. All I have left for you is apathy.

As an organization, drop all plans for anything GenAI-related, promise to never touch it again, and have your wayward CEO apologize sincerely and unequivocally (and, optionally, resign). That is the only way to regain this trust.

there's one way that you can regain our trust, which is to tear this garbage out and publicly commit to never doing it again.

I'll trust you if you chuck the AI garbage out for 3-5 years until the hype dies down. Then, you can sift through the ashes and salvage whatever was actually useful in this tech.

The org constantly has to find angles to better get money into it and this creates these moments where community kinda thinks: "what? Why are they also going on this hypetrain? 😩"

I personally do not want Firefox to be working on AI at all and prefer that Firefox continue spending its resources on optimization, user-friendly features, and performance. But, if Firefox continues with AI development, the only path that could fly is developing its own model.

Why.Add.It.In.The.First.Place? Also, why the fuck did your fucking CEO talk about it like he did? I know that you developers are not responsible for corpo shit, but the trust is ZERO right now, and your company needs to know that.

You can't with just this. Fire the CEO and roll back the AI browser bullshit, then work on actively making useful features for three or four years and ask again.

so ML was not opt-in. It was opt-out

I don't think you or the rest of the Firefox team understand how you've blown it with your user base by giving into them "AI" FOMO and sneaking in ML settings that were auto-enabled. Take it all out!

It can be both. But not all of us can be @rbreich.bsky.social with a son who is in tune with the video zeitgeist.

If you want people to trust you you need to not enshittify your product. Customization to make the enshittification less severe doesn’t cut it. Build a browser that serves its users and not any profit motive, and if you can’t do it at Mozilla, do it elsewhere. Your talent is wasted there.

you lost all our trust by embracing fascism. whether or not YOU think you're not doing anything wrong, your USER BASE DOES. you are only destroying the legacy of your product, fuck you.

I am willing to pay for services that respect my time and experience with how I interface with my computer and I’m tired of having to withdraw my support because of tone deaf decision making.

The fact that Mozilla, represented always as 'for the web', is okay with even building in the most anti-web technology ever, built around scraping all our data without us getting asked (no opt in for that). Nah. Having ai even as an option is where y'all lost all the trust you built.