XLE

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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 ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “He” this time. The CEO keeps changing, but their mission keeps getting worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the article has selected people who claim chatbots have fixed their marriages… This is a puff piece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  as a totally off-topic aside, I find that people tend to dislike AI in areas they are deeply familiar with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible article. Starting off with, they are only banning minors from chats (although their other features are unpopular), and they are tapering children off by limiting chats to two hours for now.

  the company says it’s rolling out a new in-house “age assurance model” that classifies a user’s age based on the type of characters they choose to chat with…

  If nobody under 18 is allowed on the chats, why would you have characters geared towards minors?!

  Adults mistaken for minors can prove their age to the third-party verification site Persona

  The surveillance company, that’s great

  And then there’s this quote from the guy who runs the suicide bot company:

  “When we started making the changes of under 18 experiences earlier in the year, our under 18 user base did shrink, because those users went into other platforms, which are not as safe,” Anand said.

  Give me a break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  World’s richest man with an infamously glitchy centralized social network, who wants it to be a centralized payment processor, is saying what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.

  I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is pretty clear that the issue is with the Android devices themselves, not with lazy users. There is no indication that a malicious app has these permissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a fairer future for digital advertising: Mozilla partners with Index Exchange | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the writing on the wall when they purchased ad company Anonym… There were other signs before that, but that was the most brazen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get a bigger screen. But you can't buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors... And those smart screens can detect when you aren't interacting with them and display ads...