What's really funny about Firefox's new AI chatbot feature is you're probably *only* going to find out about it if it's by someone outraged about it on social media¹, because Mozilla snuck it in like a thief in the night.
¹ Sorry about that, by the way.
@mcc Firefox is intolerable.
Mozilla leadership has no idea what their product is or who their users are, and all their offerings will continue to rot until they replace them with people who both know and care about those things.
The only viable option is to run a fork that excises the increasingly large number of misfeatures they keep shoving in.
@mcc Yes, but it's better than nothing. I actually did completely back out the AI bullshit, but it was a 2800 line patch, and I completely get that fork maintainers don't want to maintain a diff that big.
My attempts to neutralize it in a more targeted way also caused problems, because it's all slapdash hardcoded everywhere and would cause a bunch of problems.
None of this is good. I would like a good web browser. Instead, we have The Democratic Party of web browsers.
This is a draft intended to spur discussion around the specific technical approach to removing this feature. Unfortunately, Mozilla didn’t add a compile-time flag to control this, so I went with the maximalist option and reverted *all* code related to this feature; the diff is, consequently, lar...
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