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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
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Welp, time to move to waterfox for good
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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They're going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?
That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.
something an adblocker already done, without the unneccsary extra steps.
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Chrome =/= Chromium, like Android =/= AOSP folks.. just to clarify.
Jfc. The stupidest timeline, I fucking swear.
It's the natural progression of capitalism and market force fundamentalism.
It's a sort of religion.
Remember the way to disable all AI in Firefox.
about:config
browser.ml.enable -> false
For now...
Ew ew ew.
No one is asking for AI, you weirdos!
I don't think our Lemmy comments are going to reach Googles...I mean Mozilla's boardroom.
Yall saw Microsoft push stupid Copilot on everyone and fail miserably and said, "hold my beer!"
Bros, take the hint! No one wants AI bullshit. Firefox was the goto switch when Google Chrome was using 37 processes and 98% memory for one website... yall are fuckin up!
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compare to vivaldi flat out refusing ai, keeping mv2, and actually building a blocker and tracker into the browser.
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Yeah this ain't it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won't be possible as Firefox enshittifies
As long as there is a easy way to disable it. And clearly communicated what they are doing. I do not begrudge mozilla trying to remain competitive with mainstream.
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As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.
It does matter a bit.
Librewolf devs depend on firefox development. They just rip out the stupid bits. They're not prepared to maintain a hard fork. They could still decide to do it, but it would take more community involvement.
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Well, older news is: "Firefox has evolved into the first thing I uninstall when I install Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that matter". Since the first mention of their so-called "anonymous telemetry" I began to actively avoid them. Like someone else mention, thank God for Librewolf, Mullvad and Brave (with Leo disabled).
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Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:
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It's very sad as I don't think there's a proper alternative in short term. In the end, I am afraid that I'll have to keep using Firefox because it's essentially the "lesser evil",
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