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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No no no, that's no way to write a headline. "Here's how you disable Firefox' AI," now that's a headline!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, it comes disabled; you have to explicitly go enable it, if you want to use it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That's good. I still object to it being there in the first place, but opt-in is definitely preferable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The AI is local and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t give information but only summarises webpages

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

At this point I'm just posting this over and over again:

Two panel comic by Tom Fishburne. In the left hand panel a man sitting at a desk gestures at his computer screen saying "AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote". In the right hand panel, a woman at a desk gestures at her computer screen, saying "AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Waterfox is a solid alternative, fennec for android.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf on PC and IronFox on Android for our more paranoid friends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

fennec for android.

I use that on Ubuntu Touch running Waydroid 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't fennec maintained by Mozilla, though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quickly googled it and fennec is no longer maintained by mozilla, the new fork is called fennec f-droid which is what most users are using now so you were technically correct (the best kind of correct)

fennec fdroid is android firefox stripped of proprietary and data collection and i had not heard of it prior to being on f-droid so i was unaware that I even had to specify between the two versions i assumed mozilla had nothing to do with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Guess I was a little confused; at least their repo, change log and project website still point to Mozilla (in droidify, anyway).