Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Mozilla Firefox configuration settings are utterly polluted with AI crap, with no simple way to turn them all off easily. However, there are three that seem to kill most of the AI activity at the UI level, but what's going on in the background I of course can't see. By the way, Firefox is also hiding http: and https:, a terrible decision that Google tried and reversed years ago. You can disable this in Firefox about:config as well. To cripple Firefox AI:

Go to URL about:config

Set these to "false":

browser.ml.chat.enabled
extensions.ml.enabled

These stop Firefox from attempting to create link preview "key points" AI garbage from reading your page. Also:

Setting to false:

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

Will turn off the annoying link preview behavior entirely.

I will note that this behavior by Mozilla is actually far more invasive than what Chrome currently does.

Hey Mozilla: Take your damned AI and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

L
Kerplunk
@Kerplunk@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@lauren

The Mozilla Firefox configuration settings are utterly polluted is more to the point.

Please people demand better of the Bullshit foundation that has made people like Mitchell Baker multi millionaires while ruining what was once a good browser.

Sacking capable developers

Purchasing an advertising company

LibreWolf shows what forefox should be like.

It can be further hardened but is pretty good as delivered.

A very good alternative is UngoogledChromium
Irenes (many)
@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@cmccullough @lauren institutionalism as a theory of change is self-defeating. the highest incentive of any power structure is to perpetuate its own existence, over and above whatever purpose it was nominally created for. on average, over time, that self-perpetuation will become the only thing it does. the larger it is, the more disconnected from human purpose it is and the more often the purposes come into conflict and the faster it all happens.