As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter.
My preferred chatbot is none.
Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds
Submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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reddig33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
rob200@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
Where is the demand for ai on Firefox?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It’s internal. They are becoming irrelevant (their browser market share have been shrinking for years now), so they are jumping all the new hype trends now. They literally just became an ad company. We have Google, Apple, Brave and Mozilla all being an ad companies that produce browsers.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 months ago
Microsoft dominated with IE back in the day for the same reason Chrome and Safari are the dominant choices. People don't tend to change the default if it works okay enough. Firefox dropped heavily years ago as the market was saturated with other new choices already installed on mobile and Chromebooks, but recent numbers are about the same as they have been for a while. Maybe even still growing, as all the numbers I find are percentages, and there's no doubt we've had an explosion of device use.
rob200@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
But hey, atleast we have Falkon browser. Except for being based on WebKit the browser itself isn’t currently maintained by an ad company.
Is Mozilla still nonprofit or are they changing their moto?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
Someday I’ll just switch to Waterfox or some firefox fork that doesn’t have this shit baked in. Although, I would much rather have an alternative written from a new browser engine in Rust, Go, or at least something more sane and as performant than C / C++.
snooggums@midwest.social 4 months ago
Is no chatbot a choice?
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Literally in the second sentence of the article “opt-in”
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Wasting money and development resources is not though.
snooggums@midwest.social 4 months ago
I read that as opting into the early access, not as opting in to having AI in Firefox. Hope it is the way you read it.