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Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI

The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Longplay Games
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Excellent. Now ship it off by default and let users choose to turn it on, and we're talking.
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When a developer asks for a little bit of faith, you pretty much know how it'll end
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"It'll still be on by default and we'll switch it back on at every significant update of our choosing. You'll be switching this back off constantly until you give up and just let the AI have its way with you and your data. It's all part of the plan!"
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He says it will be "opt-in". It sounds to me much like the current arrangement where you have a menu to ask a bot to summarize a page or talk to it.
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Campbell's CEO assures a skeptical public that "there are still many soup varieties that don't have a turd inside".
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it's not that there "will be" a killswitch it's going to be how frequently their updates resets said switch rather than keeping the setting. At this point I'm seeing less and less reason to trust @mozilla software due to their garbage positions on AI.
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Knowing executives, starting the browser will be you agreeing to opt-in, and then you need to hunt down all the features scattered around all the different setting categories to turn it all off again (until the next time that you start the browser)
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Distante
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I would be happy if Firefox allowed disabling all AI with a single button

It seems that only @Vivaldi will not have AI

privacyguides.org/news/2025/12…

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Kevin Pham (Privacy Guides)
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I really am trying to take into account all that @mozilla has done for privacy and openness. They have done alot. And I dont want to imagine the workers are mustash twirling villains.

But their track record is so spotty, and getting more. The initial announcement had a tiny bit about an option. Some credit. But did not have much about it. Something ppl have been trying to make them aware of.

@Mozilla
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I hope there is a "disable all AI" button, and that I won't have to disable 23 different hidden and obscured options to really disable all AI garbage.
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A compilation flag so forks just remove it entirely and I don't have to download shit?

Nah, that's still bad. Implementing AI means less time working on more important features. Where's JPEG XL, that allows developers to save resources (bandwidth and storage), which is good for the environment, unlike AI.

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