I want an AI Window and all this other AI crap in my browser as much as I want cesium-137 in my shrimp.
:firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
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@catsalad Good News! You can have both!
@catsalad it should be a powerful message that I still buy Walmart shrimp but won’t touch AI, or just a sign of the times.
@catsalad given the blog starts: "We recently shared how we are approaching AI in Firefox — with user choice and openness as our guiding principles" I assume that there will be a straightforward switch in Firefox Settings to disable and remove this AI window?
@catsalad Can I have an AI AdBlocker and an AI PopupBlocker? No? Well count me out.
@catsalad cesium at least makes a cool glow on your shrimps, AI slop windows does absolutely no good
@catsalad You say that because you never tasted grilled shrimp with cesium 137 seasoning 😋
So what's the new about:config magic to turn this one off?
@resuna Not sure yet. Hopeful under browser.ml.* like many of the others
@catsalad but like cesium-137 in our shrimps, we get it anyways
@catsalad this kind of nice comparison is probably too clever to be understood by mozilla.
@catsalad the AI fuckery just doesn't stop. I am glad I did the switch to a non Mozilla variant
@catsalad Looks like I switched to Vivaldi just in time. I didn’t want to, but Mozilla keeps doing stupid crap like this. Sigh.😔
@catsalad Isn't it great the way Mozilla exists as "the alternative to the bad browsers" and yet lately their thoughts seem to be hard focused on asking the question "so how can we become more like the bad browsers?"
If cesium-137 were making billionaires richer, you'd see it in every food in the market. And I mean see it.
@RustyRing @catsalad I think the world tried this with radium at one point. Didn't go too well.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/
@catsalad « we see a different path — one where AI serves as a trusted companion »
Definitely too much cesium in their shrimp 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@catsalad why do they think that we want that crap to waste our disc space ?
@catsalad So that has to be a lot right? Lol
@catsalad @librewolf will you be removing this in the future
@catsalad You can still disable that crap in Firefox. Anyway, there are some good forks like LibreWolf.
@catsalad Of course they announce this immediately after they released an actually good update that enhances privacy...
@catsalad I feel very confident when the blog of a former beloved open source browser, that used to champion privacy, doesn’t load in Safari while iOS lockdown mode for that domain is enabled 😶
@schrotthaufen Wonder if it's because they use Cloudflare for their blog. Try this
https://web.archive.org/web/20251113182839/https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
@catsalad Yep. I’ve noticed a few other websites (e.g. LinkedIn, which is not cloudflare) that reload a bunch of times before Safari gives up since the iOS 18.7.2 update.
@catsalad i have some very large speaker magnets and a well-worn five-pound striking sledge. I can reshape it.
Yeah.
@catsalad Mmmm..
Spicy shrimp!
@catsalad is this gonna have yet another config: flag i need to manually turn off because they default to opt-in with no visible option to opt-out?
@catsalad So Mozilla is dead.
Where we dropping?
@creativegamingname Tor Browser for me, since they do the best job of neutering all of Mozilla's crap like this.
@catsalad @creativegamingname many corporate environments block tor, so that's out of the question for many many people
@AtanasE @creativegamingname Yeah, I know it well. I've been using Tor 24/7 for like 3 years and plan on writing about it.
The first part is going to be a big section as to why I don't recommend it. Cloudflare hates Tor!
@catsalad @creativegamingname So what is the solution then? LibreWolf? Or the proprietary Vivaldi?
@catsalad @creativegamingname Librewolf and Mullvad’s browser are worth a look too. Mullvad built their browser in collaboration with Tor. Afaik, it’s effectively tor, but without the Tor network.
Vivaldi is my day-to-day browser with a good balance between privacy and usability features, but the others are best for max security/privacy
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