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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox::Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Just make it built-in installed extension and let users to remove it. Or else I will not care browser monopoly and I’ll use Chromium derivatives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Chromium derivatives. Which will undoubtedly be using non removable AI soon and also feed all your private data to Google directly without hesitation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  • derivatives that doesn’t uses AI.

Maybe Firefox fork? IDK I just don’t like bloat.

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

You and me both. I can't imagine FF won't at least allow you to easily disable features like that.