Post #2811261

2026-02-02 12:52 UTC

I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people with browser.ml.chat.enabled=false also have telemetry turned off so are invisible to Mozilla. 🤔

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@pre@boing.world 2026-02-02 22:36

Mozilla think that adding some controls to their settings to allow users to opt out of the AI features is good enough. No sign of a separate build without them there at all, but at least a switch to disable them, in theory. They say: "Once configured, the AI preferences will persist across browser updates" Though they do have a history of turning on telemetry over and over again even when you keep turning it off. Or inventing new telemetery for you to turn off each update. One switch will turn off: "AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names," Which sounds horrifying, but then I don't really like tab groups anyway. They seem to be suggesting that this is all just for desktop though, and so the Android build will presumably continue to not even have a working about:config at all. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-let-you-turn-off-all-firefox-ai-features/

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@skyfaller@jawns.club 2026-02-02 13:35

@pre@boing.world I left telemetry turned on for a long time for exactly this reason, but the LLM shit finally cost them enough of my trust that I had to turn it off.

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