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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)
(infosec.pub)
Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware
Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/
Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/
Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/
More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/
You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/
GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai
You can find all the links on Mastodon<
It is opt in. Or will be. And they're adding an AI switch.
Not disagreeing with you, just adding context.
The bigger problem is that they're wasting their finite resources on this crap instead of adding actually cool features like their forks are doing.
You should add a maybe. The will try to push it. You can't do that with an off by default feature.
They keep saying their ai features will be opt-in, and yet everything they've rolled out so far is opt-out. I struggle to believe future 'features' will be any different. Maybe it's opt-in in the sense that I'm not required to click whichever button activates it, like whatever they added to the context menu, but that's not really what opt-in means and degrades my trust in Mozilla.
I'm also frustrated by their seeming inability to focus on their core browser product and building a popular competitor to chromium browsers instead of going off on side quests.