Firefox for Web DevelopersSomething that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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Firefox for Web DevelopersAll AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.
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Firefox for Web DevelopersI'm not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is.
But I do ask that you don't have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we're going to do the wrong thing here.
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Firefox for Web DevelopersI hope we can (re)gain your trust here.
I don't personally work on this stuff, but I'll try hard to answer any questions you have.
And other than that, I'll get back in my lane, and stick to web platform stuff.
- Jake (@jaffathecake@mastodon.social)
Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @jaffathecake@mastodon.social it’s hard to believe the “kill switch” will actually do what it says. We’ve been told time and time again “AI” will be “opt-in” just to have the features repeatedly turned back on after users have disabled them.
Why is this any different?
Firefox for Web Developers@josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social which features have you personally experienced this with in Firefox?
David Gerard@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social I have had browser.ml.* settings I disabled by hand in about:config re-enable repeatedly with new versions. I posted about it on bsky and a pile of other people chimed in saying the same had happened to them too.
Do not try to pretend you don't know this was happening.
Cali's Vassal Duke 4 Denmark@davidgerard@circumstances.run @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social
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Firefox was all sorts of happy to answer questions until this one came up and they've been silent for 24 hours
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Kiloku@VoxOfGod@beige.party @davidgerard@circumstances.run @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social
"We want to regain your trust": immediately lies to us
@Kiloku@burnthis.town @VoxOfGod@beige.party @davidgerard@circumstances.run @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social "We want to regain your trust" = we are about to lie through our teeth.
Bruno Nicoletti@aadeacon@mastodon.social @Kiloku@burnthis.town @davidgerard@circumstances.run @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @josh@vickerson.me @jaffathecake@mastodon.social Up there with “We value your privacy which is why we are sharing your details with 478 marketing companies”.