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New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Post by roscas »

ForHackernews wrote: post #2

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Use LibreWolf, but keep in mind that most of connections it makes it is still back to Mozilla.

So the only way to fight this is to block the connections and accept only those who we really want.

We still need to block all the crap with Chrome or any other browser or program.

There is no way you get around it without serious blocking and uBlock Origin for ads and the other crap.

The question is how much money does Google put on Mozzila.

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Post by throwaway81523 »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #4
ForHackernews wrote: post #2

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Something something Brendan Eich

I mistakenly blamed Brendan Eich for some general Mozilla idiocy that I now see as really being due to Mitchell Baker. Sorry Brendan. I can blame Brendan Eich for some technical deficiencies in early JS but that's way less far-reaching.

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Post by KronisLV »

Borgz wrote: post #3

>Note: Google must be set as your default search engine for this feature to appear.

Seems like a fairly nice way to approach this (as long as it can also be disabled in the options). Heck, might as well have reverse image search context options for all the search engines that support something like it.

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Post by gpm »

If this sticks around I hope (and mostly trust) that they'll make it configurable across different image search tools.

Other than that this seems... fine. Good even. It's a nice to have feature that isn't in the way and presumably doesn't share any data at all until you explicitly tell it to.

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