As much as I hate AI, I get that they include stuff like that to appease the mainstream users. I would just wish they asked me beforehand if I want these features. At least its pretty unintrusive unlike most other AI implementations right now. And they give an option to remove it, which is nice.
What mainstream users? Firefox is tiny in usage compared to Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc. And the people who do use FF use it because they have enough tech knowledge to understand why those other browsers are bad/consumer hostile.
If FF starts catering to the ‘mainstream’ by acting like those other browsers, they’re going to end up shrinking their user base instead of growing it.
I agree. I was all about to go up in arms about it when I saw that menu but then I was immediately relieved when I saw they’ve put the “Remove AI Chatbot” option right below it. They know their userbase very well and know that even though some people desire AI features to play with, a lot of us find it immediately repugnant and a show stopper so I think it’s an ok way to appease both, provided that the AI wasn’t active in the background until we had a chance to notice this menu and disable it.
As long as they don’t pull a Microsoft and increasingly try to force it down our throats when they realise that nobody wants it.
I hate to break it to you, but we live in a time where the average users uses ChatGPT or Gemini instead of Google or Wikipedia to get information. Most of my coworkers use AI at least to some degree, even the technically more advanced users.
As much as I hate this, we can‘t just ignore it as if this wouldn‘t be the case. We are already in the Dead-Internet-Times and it will only get worse unless the bubble bursts, but even then we won‘t be at a point that we were at before this all started.
You are right. And all this Firefox bashing is helping the real bad actors.
Let’s take a realistic look. I think, AI is here to stay. With a few years more AI can be an invaluable assistant of your life. I don’t think the bubble will burst in a way that AI will cease to exist completely.
The important part is, that the AI has to run on your systems in your terms. Nothing you prompt should ever be transferred to anywhere. If that’s the case you have control and that’s okay.
At the moment Mozilla is one of the better actors. Let’s not jump on the bandwagon bash everything just because they changed a sentence in the AGB, while at the same time Google is pushing manifest v3. Lets be really picky about which technology will give us or take our digital sovereignty
As much as I hate AI, I get that they include stuff like that to appease the mainstream users. I would just wish they asked me beforehand if I want these features. At least its pretty unintrusive unlike most other AI implementations right now. And they give an option to remove it, which is nice.
What mainstream users? Firefox is tiny in usage compared to Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc. And the people who do use FF use it because they have enough tech knowledge to understand why those other browsers are bad/consumer hostile.
If FF starts catering to the ‘mainstream’ by acting like those other browsers, they’re going to end up shrinking their user base instead of growing it.
I agree. I was all about to go up in arms about it when I saw that menu but then I was immediately relieved when I saw they’ve put the “Remove AI Chatbot” option right below it. They know their userbase very well and know that even though some people desire AI features to play with, a lot of us find it immediately repugnant and a show stopper so I think it’s an ok way to appease both, provided that the AI wasn’t active in the background until we had a chance to notice this menu and disable it.
As long as they don’t pull a Microsoft and increasingly try to force it down our throats when they realise that nobody wants it.
This doesn’t appease mainstream users, though…
I hate to break it to you, but we live in a time where the average users uses ChatGPT or Gemini instead of Google or Wikipedia to get information. Most of my coworkers use AI at least to some degree, even the technically more advanced users.
As much as I hate this, we can‘t just ignore it as if this wouldn‘t be the case. We are already in the Dead-Internet-Times and it will only get worse unless the bubble bursts, but even then we won‘t be at a point that we were at before this all started.
You are right. And all this Firefox bashing is helping the real bad actors.
Let’s take a realistic look. I think, AI is here to stay. With a few years more AI can be an invaluable assistant of your life. I don’t think the bubble will burst in a way that AI will cease to exist completely.
The important part is, that the AI has to run on your systems in your terms. Nothing you prompt should ever be transferred to anywhere. If that’s the case you have control and that’s okay.
At the moment Mozilla is one of the better actors. Let’s not jump on the bandwagon bash everything just because they changed a sentence in the AGB, while at the same time Google is pushing manifest v3. Lets be really picky about which technology will give us or take our digital sovereignty