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Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox (justthebrowser.com)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I get a lot of hate for it but some AI inclusions are genuinely good.

Firefox's (local, FOSS) AI translation is infinitely better than scraping all the info and sending it to Google Translate servers, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

The screen reader improvements that use AI are good as well. Has anybody here used screen readers for web pages? They are awful. It's good that someone is willing to improve them. My sister is blind so this matters a lot to me.

The (locally generated) AI assisted link previews aren't for me as I imagine they're unnecessarily taxing on older PCs, but they're not exactly an evil inclusion. I can see it being a useful feature.

I'm not a fan of the LLM sidebar, but it's opt-in and you can at least choose open models or even host your own. Plus there's the unfortunate truth that many people that Firefox is trying to win over ("normies") now expect features like that.

The hate is so overblown. Everyone is so negative and absolutist about everything all of the time. It's exhausting.