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AI controls is coming to Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I think we just need a dialog box - could be like osx - "are you sure you want to allow the plugin that you said you wanted to use? It was built by: you, not signed by Mozilla." Maybe put a "You have unsigned plugins running" tool tip - that gets displayed at startup or every 8 hours.

that won't help to warn the largest part of the target audience, those who were trained by big tech to dismiss those dialogs by reflex without reading a word in it

[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

I disagree, if the user has opened up about: has gone in an said, "I want to enable this local plugin permanently" and then says, "yes" to a "do you really want to do this"

this is enough

also just think if mac or windows or linux all of a sudden said, "no you can't install the software you want"

you would be against I would think.