Post #71178

2025-12-16 22:18 UTC

Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it. Come on, this isn’t Reddit, at least skim the article before you start with the performative outrage.

Replies (6)

@CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 22:46

It should be something that people can easily turn ON.

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@shalafi@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 23:27

Few read the articles around here, like any social media. I could come with a headline that Bill Gates proposed using trans people’s brains for AI processing, Matrix style, and harvesting the water of the dead ones, a la Dune. Lemmy would eat it up.

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@douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 05:26

Unfortunate Newsflash: It’s smaller reddit. The lowest common denominator consumed all. And that denominator includes not being able to read articles or apply critical thought.

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@selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2025-12-17 05:36

It’s not needed. Nobody is looking for AI powered shit and they will feel it in their numbers. Why invest the pennies Mozilla can invest in a technology that big monsters are developing with billions and billions of dollars and natural resources? It’s not even reasonable, like a Pocket 2.0.

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@onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-17 11:24

The problem is the AI being here in itself. It shouldn’t be in Firefox, or frankly any other software. Also, corporations and their CEOs lie every day, you know.

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@communism__dup_7961@lemmy.ml 2025-12-17 12:55

Nobody’s saying it’s mandatory. People don’t want their web browsers to be full of bloated AI slop. Why should there be the AI components of Firefox on my hard drive if I’m never going to use them? Why should my web browser be full of low quality features I’ll never use? It’s enshittification. Not to mention the very quote you’re pasting specifies that it’s opt-out, not opt-in.

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