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  • standard approach with such a controversial feature

    The “controversial” features:

    1. Alt-text generation: Creates descriptions for images, which is particularly useful for making PDFs more accessible to screen readers.
    2. On-device translation: Translates web pages without sending your content to external servers, protecting your privacy.
    3. Smart tab groups: Analyzes open tabs to suggest names and group similar ones together to help with organization.
    4. Link previews: Generates key points from articles to give you a quick summary.

    These are all very modest in requirements even on an old phone. And the use is actually zero unless you use the function.
    AFAIK all further AI functionalities are all optional.

    Number one is particularly useful for blind people, a group that absolutely needs screen readers to work well.

    So again stop the bullshitting, just because you are bullshitting yourself too doesn’t make it better.
    Either that or mention just one single specific function you “needed” to disable and why.
    IMO your misunderstood whining is annoying.

    Personally I use the translation function a lot, it is both very handy and very good, and I have used it for both Russian and Ukrainian and Chinese, and it works surprisingly well.
    But maybe you speak every language on the planet, or find it more convenient to use an online translator, leaving unnecessary extra digital trails and requiring extra bandwidth?
    How you don’t find that feature useful is beyond me???






  • I don’t trust the corporate overlords to do what’s right long term.

    You don’t have to, if Mozilla really screwed the pooch with Firefox it would be forked. Debian used to do it with IceWeasel over a petty thing like the copyright of the Firefox logo, which 100% has always been justified, and is necessary to distinguish between an official Firefox and a fork.

    The AI bullshit features as you call them are completely non invasive, I always use the newest Firefox, and I never even noticed those features.

    Stop the bullshitting and complaining over things are completely irrelevant. and will never ever have any negative influence on anything you do with Firefox.
    I’m so sick of this lame community doing this over and over and over again, and it always turns out to be nothing.











  • Oh wow, here I thought it was hopeless, and then we end up mostly agreeing anyway.
    But I don’t think USA was the cause for Russia invading Ukraine. That I think is 100% on Putin and his idea of recreating the Empire of the former Soviet Union.

    But I do agree that Biden kind of prevented Ukraine from winning as much as he prevented Ukraine from losing.
    And Trump has definitely not done much to help Ukraine win either, both prolonging a war that could have been finished much quicker if we had helped Ukraine more.

    And of course prolonging the war earns money for the MIC.