@firefox, the “last privacy-respecting browser” now nags you with in-browser pop-ups to let AI generate “key points” when you long-press links.
Mozilla CEO: “AI should always be a choice – something people can easily turn off”
Then why the fuck is it off by default? Why the fuck am I getting pop-ups asking me to try features I didn’t ask for? That’s not a choice. That’s opt-out with a fucking marketing budget.
What the fuck happened to you, Mozilla.
They spent WEEKS in damage control promising an “AI kill switch” and then shipped it fucking disabled. That is the most gaslit UX I have ever seen in my life.
“Help me @librewolf - you’re my only hope.”
Settings > AI Controls > Block AI enhancements. Do it now, because they won’t do it for you.
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Edit: a few corrections thanks to @Feyd:
“Hover over links”
- It’s a long-press / context menu action, not a passive hover. That’s a meaningful distinction because hover implies it’s happening constantly without intent, which is way more invasive than what’s actually happening.
“Sending page content to ML models”
- the default link preview (before you enable key points) just reads the Open Graph meta tags – the same og:title / og:description metadata that generates link cards in Slack, Discord, iMessage, etc. That’s not AI, that’s just HTML parsing.
- even when you DO opt into the AI key points feature, it runs a local on-device model, not shipping your page content off to some cloud endpoint.
That is the most obnoxiously incorrect therapy speak usage of “gaslit/gaslighting” I have ever seen in my life.
@TheTechnician27 you’re technically making a point about language inflation, but you picked maybe the worst possible example to die on that hill because “we said it’s opt-in but it’s actually opt-out” is genuinely closer to gaslighting than 95% of the times people use that word online.
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Lying is not the same thing as gaslighting, you colossal fuckmuppet.
if you’re going to play grammar Nazi with someone else’s imperfect English, at least exhibit some basic literacy yourself and read what they said.
@k3ym0@infosec.exchange said they were closer, not that they were right.
@TheTechnician27 “colossal fuckmuppet” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting for someone claiming the moral high ground on precise language usage.
Oh, no, this follow-up comment reinforces that I got it exactly right.
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It’s not about “imperfect English”; it’s about lazily, selfishly abusing real therapy terms in places they don’t apply in a way that strips away crucial language from victims of abuse and genercizes it to absolute meaninglessness. I’m not going to argue the truth or merits of “closer” when they’re a fucking million miles away from what the word means; you’re upset with me for not playing into their fallacious relative privation bullshit, and I categorically don’t care.