> ...the AI kill switch ... has been flipped by just 1% of Firefox users to turn off AI completely.

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@fasterandworse@hci.social it's still insane to me that companies can just fuck you in the ass and claim that because you haven't said no you consented

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@fasterandworse

Also the kill switch turns off translations. Since I use those I need to manually turn off every ai feature and then go back any time new ones are added

[algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club]

@puppygirlhornypost2 Even if you say no, they'll assert that they're doing it for the Greater Good, and for the Benefit of All of Humanity, so sorry, but your ass is now fair use.

@fasterandworse

[aaron@social.caskey-demaret.se]

@womble @fasterandworse I would be genuinely interested to see the percentage of people who have never opened the settings in Firefox. I imagine it's probably in the high 90s.

[redsakana@infosec.exchange]

@fasterandworse
I would assume that there is also a fair bit of overlap between people who turn off slop machines but also telemetry (especially when dealing witha well-known bad actor)

[brad@1040ste.net]

@fasterandworse No mention that I could see of users who've switched to e.g. Waterfox, either.

[varyag@outerheaven.club]

@fasterandworse I didn't hit the AI kill switch on my Firefox because I kill switched the whole ass browser into something else. Where is that data from how many users they're losing, huh?

[angry_drunk@union.place]

@fasterandworse To all the homies who predicted that Mozilla was gonna use the kill-switch to gin up stats about how popular their AI features are…pat yourselves on the back.

[resuna@ohai.social]

@fasterandworse

"The AI kill switch ... has been flipped by just 1% of Firefox users to turn off AI completely."

that's because they are conflating generative AI chatbots (which nobody wants) with translation software and not counting people who left the translation software on to support their claim that people want generative chatbots.

I said this was a con when they did it. Well, what do you know, it's a con.

[fasterandworse@hci.social]

@resuna good spot

[lumi@snug.moe]

@fasterandworse also, the people who are more educated on technology and despise this abusive & offensive tech more will generally have telemetry disabled

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@emenel

yeah, like me
I'm also someone who always opts out of telemetry

@fasterandworse

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@fasterandworse

Fuck google owned firefox slave to techbros.

[hub@cosocial.ca]

@fasterandworse also lot of the people opting out probably already opted out of telemetry (I did the day they pushed that crap about Mr Robot, years ago)