The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of kill switch to completely remove AI features.

The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of “kill switch” to completely remove AI features in the wake of the news about more AI features coming along with the new CEO.

  • picandocodigo@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    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.

    Well, they’ve been consistently doing the wrong thing for a long time now, so it’s not like it’s baseless.

    I do feel bad for some of the developers in Firefox. I imagine lots of them, maybe even the one who answered here, joined because they believed in Mozilla or Firefox. And they might be trying to steer things back, but there’s only so much they can do against the direction of the company. And the company has been trying so hard to lose loyal Firefox users…

    I hope we can (re)gain your trust here.

    I’m afraid it’s too late for that. The only way I can imagine that happening is Firefox gets moved away from the Mozilla Corporation into a new thing that just focuses on making a decent privacy oriented web browser.