Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
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Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#22Just an FYI for anyone who is interested, I’ve also been doing the same for Waterfox. Mozilla have taken into consideration doing things locally, such as tab organisation and the likes (one would assume pre-GPT era and with regard to features not utilising LLMs this would’ve been branded as ML functionality) but I’m not fully convinced this still won’t open up potential security issues in the future[for users of AI b…
What else does Waterfox remove? Does it still support signining in with a Mozilla account to enable sync features? Would be nice to see a comprehensive list somewhere; I couldn't see anything on the Waterfox homepage or the GitHub README.
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#23I file a ticket with Firefox whenever an unwanted dialog pops up covering content. If you tag these as being accessibility related they get bounced back and forth between a few people before getting closed and thus pour just a little bit of sand in the gears.
This is wasting the time of accessibility engineers who are doing very important work. Please don't.
Mozilla needs to bring in the Bobs from Office Space: "What is it you say you do here?"
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#24Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#25Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
Reminds me of the story of the ice tea company that changed their name to include "Blockchain" and saw their value shoot up a few years ago
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#26Just an FYI for anyone who is interested, I’ve also been doing the same for Waterfox. Mozilla have taken into consideration doing things locally, such as tab organisation and the likes (one would assume pre-GPT era and with regard to features not utilising LLMs this would’ve been branded as ML functionality) but I’m not fully convinced this still won’t open up potential security issues in the future[for users of AI b…
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of the story of the ice tea company that changed their name to include "Blockchain" and saw their value shoot up a few years ago
Long Blockchain Corp, formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#28Good! I do not want nor need AI in every single aspect of my life. I mean, I've seen AI hygiene products out there. How does that even work? Don't answer that ... I know it's a marketing scheme, akin to the "HD" craze of five to 10 years ago.
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Mission is to make enough money to keep existing.
If it pisses off the people who use it, its existence will be irrelevant.
Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
#30I file a ticket with Firefox whenever an unwanted dialog pops up covering content. If you tag these as being accessibility related they get bounced back and forth between a few people before getting closed and thus pour just a little bit of sand in the gears.