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Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them

They say a switch will be built in. There is no switch yet. Which means the deluge of little popups about AI tab grouping and the “look at Perplexity” messages are not going away until these changes are actually released.

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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
the killswitch is in about:config

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
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- XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s… Not really a switch. If somebody has to go to a secret place, get past a warning sign, and type in a half dozen secret commands… it sounds more like an espionage movie than the flipping of a switch.
  
  And people have already complained that some of those flags don’t affect newer ones, which Mozilla keeps adding. We might as well say Microsoft has a setting to turn off telemetry, never mind it’s also hidden and it also keeps getting switched back on.
  
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- sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  This is 12 switches
  
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- nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Or you could just use Librewolf
  
  FF build with adblock built in and AI/spyware ripped out
  
  https://LibreWolf.net
  
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- vivi@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  they have said they will make an option that is not in about:config
  
  connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/…/true#M42473
  
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  - Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Well they should have done this when the first ai feature was introduced. Bit late now.
    
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