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Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

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Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#21
post #4

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.

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

#22

Just 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.

You can see here[1], I'll avoid pasting again. But yes, can still use a Mozilla account and the website is getting a refurb - I will add a third hard thing in computer science.. letting people know all the things you've actually built :')

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43206110

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#23
post #20

I 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.

Clearly they aren't doing any/good work, if they allow popups to cover content. It's literally their job to prevent stuff like this.

Mozilla needs to bring in the Bobs from Office Space: "What is it you say you do here?"

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#25
post #4

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.

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

#26

Just 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…

Thanks for maintaining Waterfox. For me it has been working without issues, basically Firefox but with reasonable defaults, and I don’t have to constantly look for and manually disable “features” like these.

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#27

Earlier 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

I thought you were joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#28
post #4

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.

I'm waiting for the day we get microwaves with an AI that turns them off once the timer reaches zero.

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#29
post #8

Earlier 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.

"Nooooo, you need to use FF no matter how much it pisses you off, since we can't let Google be a monopoly (even though it already is and it's the government's job to crack down monopolies)"

Re: Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

#30

I 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.

Why would you brag about that? Honestly, to what end? If your goal is to put sand in the gears what difference is there between this and trolling, spamming or just good ol' fashioned DOS?
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