Firefox has only added AI in relatively recent updates, it is entirely device local, currently only optionally used for translation of pages, and pretty easy to disable entirely. I don’t believe it’s even part of the mobile version codebase.
You’re making an argument along the lines of saying a BB gun is equivalent to an anti-tank rifle because they both fire projectiles.
Firefox has also confirmed all current and future AI features will be able to be disabled entirely with a single switch, despite the new CEO’s braindead comments about wanting to integrate AI further.
Not ideal, but considerably better than most other options. There’s no serious argument in favor of Brave simply because Firefox has a whiff of AI on it. Brave has literally been involved with a cryptocurrency scheme.
The only other options not under the Chrome umbrella are in-development browsers that aren’t reasonable for normal use and don’t have mobile versions.
Plus, nearly all of the Firefox forks, which is what I would reccomend instead of the main branch of Firefox, have the current AI features disabled by default or completely stripped out.
I’m active in the fuck ai and techtakes communities on the lemmyverse. I don’t need to be lectured about the slop machine and auto-plagiarizers. But I’m getting damn tired of people completely writing off Firefox for dipping their toes in the sewage and then using that as some hare brained excuse to go use browsers that are injecting sewage into their fucking veins.
Don’t let a desire for perfection blind you to options that are only better.
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You’re gonna make my eyes roll out of my skull.
Firefox has only added AI in relatively recent updates, it is entirely device local, currently only optionally used for translation of pages, and pretty easy to disable entirely. I don’t believe it’s even part of the mobile version codebase.
You’re making an argument along the lines of saying a BB gun is equivalent to an anti-tank rifle because they both fire projectiles.
Firefox has also confirmed all current and future AI features will be able to be disabled entirely with a single switch, despite the new CEO’s braindead comments about wanting to integrate AI further.
Not ideal, but considerably better than most other options. There’s no serious argument in favor of Brave simply because Firefox has a whiff of AI on it. Brave has literally been involved with a cryptocurrency scheme.
The only other options not under the Chrome umbrella are in-development browsers that aren’t reasonable for normal use and don’t have mobile versions.
Plus, nearly all of the Firefox forks, which is what I would reccomend instead of the main branch of Firefox, have the current AI features disabled by default or completely stripped out.
I’m active in the fuck ai and techtakes communities on the lemmyverse. I don’t need to be lectured about the slop machine and auto-plagiarizers. But I’m getting damn tired of people completely writing off Firefox for dipping their toes in the sewage and then using that as some hare brained excuse to go use browsers that are injecting sewage into their fucking veins.
Don’t let a desire for perfection blind you to options that are only better.