Mozilla has publicly criticized Microsoft for deploying its AI assistant, Copilot, onto Windows systems without user consent, a practice the Firefox maker describes as prioritizing corporate revenue over user rights.
  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s worse than that. I have uninstalled that shit every day for the past month off the same computer, and it just pops right back on within 24 hours.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hmmm…what about the VPN plugin I didnt ask for?
    Why again did you put this in the UI front and center without just asking me “Hey, we’ve got our own VPN. Want to pin it to your tool bar?”
    No we need to figure out how to tell our clients what to do with it or findout how to automatically get rid of it.

    • calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They need to earn money to pay developers. The Google deal isn’t going to hold forever and has been a pain point for a long time.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Why again did you put this in the UI front and center without just asking me “(…)”

        Man…Reading comprehension really took a nose dive on lemmy.

        • calisti@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You don’t understand business. Your own reaction is the best display for why they should not and did not implement this as a one-time question just as you proposed. As you proposed, notably, so that you have the easiest possible way to disregard it.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Bold of them when they put enabled by default AI garbage in firefox without the communities consent.

    This would be a lot more meaningful if mozilla leadership was positioned strictly against this shitty tech.

    • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In firefox they are enabled by default in the sense that you can get to them via the UI unless you flip some settings, but they don’t do anything unless you use them, including not even downloading the models until first use. So yes, I would prefer firefox not have them (except local translation which uses a local model instead of shipping it off to a remote service, which is a useful feature that is better then the alternative ways to do it), but I wouldn’t say it’s as far as hypocrisy.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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        2 months ago

        this condemnation coming after they enabled the link preview popup by default because “it’s not ai” and having a big “activate ai now!!!” button take up half of it, and then doubling down when people rightfully pointed out to them that this is a textbook dark pattern, makes it hypocritical.

        • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
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          2 months ago
          1. You have to long click or open from the control menu to get link preview
          2. The link preview itself has a direct link to the settings page where you can disable it
          3. It’s true that the link preview content that shows before you activate the AI summary is not AI. It is just showing the open graph content, same as any chat app or whatever
          4. If you like the open graph content, but don’t want the AI summary, you can hit the chevron to fold the summary panel to window decoration size, and it stays folded for all future link previews even through reboots.
          5. The AI model doesn’t download until first use

          I don’t like that link preview is how they spent their time, but the misinformation and subsequent overreaction to it is insane. I only even know this stuff or that it exists at all because I thought surely it wasn’t as egregious as people were saying so I checked it out and boy was I right.

          I’d be surprised if users that don’t talk about firefox on the internet even know link previews exist.