@dajb ai should be at least opt in, not opt out

Your mom called. She wanted to ask if you wanted to opt out of me and her

IN BED 🤓

@dajb Interesting. You probably have a point. But this was being boosted into my feeds all day yesterday.

@dajb that stupid argument, they still trow million of dollar on that crappy AI, a Kill switch will not make the software better or add usefull feature.

Mozilla is a crap with an AI and must DIE so comunity can take over end of the story

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Why don´t you just simply take the forks without AI at all like waterfox ?
It could be so easy...

@dajb i've seen this story just about as much as i did when they started introducing AI features. different circles.

either way, i think the majority of companies have not figured out that many consumers do not want AI features enabled by default. people want software that works.

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Too much, too little too late to try again with you"

@dajb this has been discussed a lot in the fediverse even before it officially happened, since an account from Mozilla asked what we thought of this idea.
The issues that the community told them (and were ignored):
1. It should be opt-in, not opt-out
2. Firefox updates have, in the past, re-enabled "AI" related options that the user had manually disabled, and they made no promise to stop that.
3. Their refusal to stop developing "AI" is a waste of resources which a non-profit can't afford.

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@dajb turning down the enshittification dial from 11 to maybe a 9 just isn't a story 🤷

@dajb It mentions desktop only - have they mentioned what's happening to their mobile browser?

@dajb Seriously. Mozilla as a whole can go sit and spin on my dick.

Feel free to yawn about it or whatever. Don’t care. Will probably mute you because you're most likely someone affiliated with Mozilla.

@dajb No we saw it. And Mozilla can go fuck themselves.

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Did they listen, or did they implement a half-baked response (that could/should be opt in) as damage control?

I'd be more inclined to celebrate and share even a half-baked effort if:

1. They were still active on the fediverse; and
2. They hadn't spent the last five years or so pissing away goodwill.

I'm not on Mozilla's marketing team (thank god), and I have zero obligation to post about anything related to Mozilla in any way!

@dajb This should be OPT-IN!

@dajb yeah, absolutely fucking not.

If Mozilla listened, the bullshit would be off by default if not slated for removal. That is what people want and demanded.

They get zero praise for manufacturing consent and telling you if you don't like poison, just don't drink it.

@dajb In my opinion DuckDuckGo’s browser nailed it with just a link to duck.ai in the browser bar. Firefox should go along the same lines… no reason to over engineer things

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Mozilla has done several cycles of this dance with Firefox already.

Mozilla has previously insisted that its AI is already under user control because they allowed you to "opt out" of AI, by setting increasingly obscure options. Those would disable it until a release or two later when they inject more AI features which ignore the previous settings, then grudgingly add to the *following* release an option for it to be disabled in a new way. Lather, rinse, repeat.

No thanks.

@dajb Mozilla's been tone deaf for more than a decade.

They've gone out of their way just to prove they can be just as capricious and ill mannered as any Silicon Valley corporation. From the way they treated their former army of contributors, the callous treatment of their own employees, and disregard for their user base, they've impeached themselves. They tossed their credibility in the trash as if they saw it as an unnecessary burden.

I do not trust them anymore.

@dajb Yes and no, I'd prefer an option to ENABLE AI 🤔

@dajb after bad faith communication and arguing that this is still opt in while it's still opt out? yeah, no grace, thank you. could have started at least this way