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"Kill switch" – oh the drama. Let's call every simple toggle 'kill switch' from now on.
i have a violently execute switch in my room (it toggles the lamp on or off)
For it to be a kill switch it would have to actually terminate a rogue AI.
Yeah, call me when Firefox creates terminators that infiltrate and destroy data centers and then themselves.
What's worse....you could always toggle it. In fact, you could re-route it to your own local LLM.
Drama drama cheesecake drama
Remember when they had a "kill switch" for javascript?
It's available as an extension: https://webextension.org/listing/javascript-toggler.html
Yeah. Used to be native. Like the slop kill switch currently is. Then won't be.
For years and years I've been using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript2/
Mozilla has released so many self-described AI features in the past few years, but this is the only one that has:
I hope Mozilla learns their lesson. I doubt they will, but I hope.
sadly I’ll likely support them through any shitty decisions they make as they are the only viable non-chromium alternative these days.
I get they’re chasing the buck and trying to stay relevant, but uhhhh… if they could be less Steve Buscemi-teen about it, that’d be great.
I strongly believe that the EU should fund Mozilla, or a fork of Firefox.
Gecko is the only viable competitor to Blink/WebKit, and it is needed
Maybe funding components would be better than funding mozilla. Eg: 2 engineers for Gecko
Govts around the world should be funding all sorts of FOSS projects. I know they do to some degree but not much. It benefits the whole world and only hurts big tech.
So, there's a "bug", though I expect to FF it's a feature: If you individually block all of the AI features, then click on the master switch to block all AI, everything's great. But if you revert that master switch suddenly it "forgets" all of your settings and shit is activated again.
It seems by design. And since it's opt in, if FF "accidentally" disables the master switch (I'm betting it will eventually) you lose that extra layer of protection. OH, and I had disabled EVERYTHING in registry (about:config) before this and translations were still available. I guess it's time for me to explore other FF-core options....
Lmao, semi common design mistake? MUST BE INTENTIONAL!
I don't think I'm being paranoid by saying it:
opt-out rollout of every AI feature
only slogging through registry to manual opt out until now
CEO and board hell bent on monetizing and delivering features users actively do not want. I.e., enshitification
I have seen my own AI registry changes revert already once after a patch
It's just a lazy/poor design.
Instead of each setting having its own bit with one 'override' bit, they just set override by setting each bit.
I, the laziest man possible, have been motivated to switch already. Waterfox is working just fine.
