I’m sorry, I’m not often someone to whine about Firefox UI. Usually their changes have been for good actually. BUT! But but but. Proper UI design would require AI features to be disabled if the toggle is disabled. This is both highly silly and very confusing.
hey, just be happy there is an option at all, and a granular one at that.
As they say, no AI is a feature.
Luckily, due to the nature of Firefox, this feature is free
I’m okay with this one, since it’s effectively an opt-in/opt-out toggle. One click on the toggle, then confirm and all the AI features get disabled as a result. Two clicks versus five is easier in my book, and at least it wasn’t one of those awful, non-compliant cookie popups where there’s no “reject all” button and you have to manually go through each toggle if it’s on a site you actually need to access.
I have to go into chrome://flags and disable AI in Chrome too. Fuck that “CIA sniffer” on my “typing.”
And I believe my Firefox… eh, I gotta check because why this opt-in to disable?
As soon as someone forks a “AI free” browser, I’m switching. Goddamm, this is all a setup for “too big to fail” (or get a Y2K disaster thingy) so gimme a bail out. Thieves in a few years.
Librewolf is AI free their default search engine is even ai free duck duck go. You can also easily opt into some of the functions that usually break web pages when they arent enabled at the cost of some privacy
i think you just blocked things you already blocked. that button is for blocking all at once, as per their statement
I don’t recommend disabling the on-device translations and speech to text feature. Yes, they are “AI” but they are the good on-device offline AI services that are actually useful. Without the on-device translation feature, you’ll have to rely on web based Google Translate. Same with the speech to text feature.
This is proper UI design. What they’re doing is defaulting to have AI updates installed automatically. If you don’t want that to happen you can stop it.
Use librewolf
At least they are brave enough to make the switch for free.
Someone has been studying up on the Microsoft Group Policy way of wording things.
I think whoever coded that views toggles as a yes/no.
Mistaaaaake
I don’t see the problem. The paragraph of text explains exactly what it’s doing. Do you also have a problem with the “enabling” of your ad blocker “disabling” the ads? There’s nothing “dark pattern” about this at all.
I could see that, but I think the key difference.
Adblocker is an active block of something from outside.
AI block is telling firefox not to use any of it’s own.
Kind of a do this, versus don’t.
“Do protect me from attackers.”
“Don’t attack me”
It should not be turn on to disable
Hehe. 47 people here think “enabling the disable-ation of ads” is clear language?! I’d like browsers / distributions include uBlock per default so there’s less spying. And if you want to enable all the ads and trackers, you’d go to the top right and press uBlock’s power button (to turn uBlock off - and ads on). I think that’s a clear and straightforward UX. At least that’s how I set up Linux computers and nobody ever complained 😄.
I mean it surely is a dark pattern to trick people into giving away their personal data to all those companies? Most of the users aren’t even aware. And their consent is fabricated by making this backwards?!
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On device translation is amazing and exactly what this software should be approved for, I think it’s good that they let you pick this separately. I don’t care for surrendering my cognitive functions to an advertising panopticon machine, but translating pages without letting Google know what sites I’m looking at? Yes please
Especially since Google translate is just a front for Gemini these days (and not in an “LLMs were made for translating” way, you can literally prompt inject it)
Agreed. It’s the only one I leave turned on and use rarely. I do appreciate that it runs locally.
Yes but I would argue that its function is properly described. I mean, it says what it does and if you want you can enable what it actually says.
If you refer to a traffic light as a “stop” light then you can interpret red as “do not stop”.
i grew up calling them semaphores and i’ll die calling them semaphores.
Never stop never stopping
Don’t keep on not keeping on
ah, reminds me of a famous song.
Don’t stop not believing