After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.
On Tuesday, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the beloved Firefox web browser used by almost all GNU/Linux distributions as the default browser.
In his message as new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo stated that Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software while remaining the company’s anchor, and that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
What was not made clear is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill switch that will let users completely disable all the AI features that are included in Firefox. Mozilla shared this important update earlier today to make it clear to everyone that Firefox will still be a trusted web browser.
only shipped it because of the backlash, they will quitely remove it eventually.
No, why would they?
AI Browser = User Data Scraper
And they'll want that sweet sweet user data money
Mozilla is literally the only browser vendor that ever gave a fuck about use privacy.
And the only one that has a nonprofit fountain structure that is designed to keep it that way.
Or do you know something I don't?
They've been losing their way from that for decades mate, that's why privacy focused forks were made in the first place (Waterfox, Fennec, Librewolf, Ironfox, etc)
They all say that in their mission statement, "Firefox is losing privacy, but the Mozilla Engine is a great foundation to build on, so this fork is to fix that"
No Firefox, no forks
And the alternative is what? Chromium, which is poisoned by Google, or a pipe dream that's not even in alpha release yet (Ladybird)
Exactly, thus Firefox.
Your wording is bad, it makes it sound like you're saying "do not use firefox, and do not use the forks"
Sure, in isolation, but we were talking and I've been on the pro-Firefox side the whole time!
I'm pro-forks
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