@amoroso
I just carefully crafted a polite reply to their request but when I clicked 'Submit' I was taken to a login or sign-up page. That's the attitude we're dealing with. They don't want my opinion unless they can monetize my data.

@amoroso I replied to it, but I've already abandoned Firefox after many years, for Librewolf & Ironfox. They aren't going to listen, but it's nice that everyone else is as "fuck no" about it as me.

@amoroso those emojis smell…

@amoroso currently liking every single replies

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I made an account just to voice my distain in this decision. Why are companies being so fucking weird and short sighted about AI? I feel like I'm going crazy.

@amoroso do we think they're gonna listen this time, or is it more of a "we solicited the feedback and then did what we wanted anyway" kinda thing?

@amoroso Having AI in your browser while every other website already implements genAI is like avoiding processed food and cooking yourself only to find out you still poison yourself from the PFAS in your pan.

@amoroso I love your reply:

"The only AI related thing I want is a single, prominent, easily accessible switch to turn off absolutely all opt-out AI features. No chasing about:config entries."

@amoroso impressive, 1 person who was pro-llm but wanted it to be opt-in and 60+ negative

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In the entire first page of replies, I see one "I want it to be different" and every other response is "I don't want it at all".
I don't understand why leadership wants this so badly. I mean, I joke about CEOs who chose a shirt size at age 19 and now are fatter and hypoxic, but is that really it? Is there some other property inherent to the C-suite that makes them bad at decisions?

@amoroso aaaaand added my 2c. Also, does the announcement read "AI"-generated to anyone else or just me?! What the fuck.

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Two words : DEFAULT OPT-OUT

#ai #firefox #mozilla

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It's about a 50/50 split between "I want to opt out with a single button." and just "No."

I also saw a couple that were like me saying, "Do this and I'm dropping Mozilla."

@amoroso Wow, their arrogance is off the charts.

“We hear you about not wanting AI, but ‘waves hands about technology moving forward’ and we’ve decided we’re the best team to tell you how you’ll use the technology you said you didn’t want to use”

@amoroso : could not find a single enthusiastic comment.

If we, anti-AI people, were so niche minority, where’s all that silent majority ?

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There was one short and on the point reply by a user named "nube":

»Mozilla, get it: you can't compete with chromium, you can't target a mainstream audience, you can't win. You're just going to lose us, the little audience you still have, stop making fun of your users!«

That's the point: #FireFox is a boutique browser nowadays. Its only way of staying in the game is by being substantially different from Chrome and its clones.

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Thing is... just follow the money. And the money wants "AI", so Mozilla has no choice but to follow if they want to keep paying their execs outrageous salaries.

@amoroso They let you type a reply and THEN ask for a login. And when you "back" because you're not gonna, your reply is gone. Which is the worst kind of infuriating. I now imagine myself floating in space, looking at the giant M monolith saying "My god, it's full of a******s..."

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The feedback is mostly various renditions of "Absolutely not!" and "Heck no!"