David GerardFirefox hit me today with the fucking AI bot popups
discovered some of the browser .ml .* shit i'd disabled in about:config had *switched back on*
someone at mozilla is playing fuck fuck games with users' preferences
Asta [AMP]@davidgerard godDAMN. This post just made me check mine and AGAIN
AGAIN
it's on AGAIN
AGAIN
it's on AGAIN
@aud can we find the diff where they did this? I feel a writeup coming on
d@nny disc@ mc²@davidgerard @aud being able to change settings at all is a really fucked up thing to do and if i was very evil and didn't want e.g. linux distros fucking my shit up i would make sure to avoid putting individual changes into the source code and would make it more like the feature flag switchers we had at twitter for backend services. possibly "policy" could be a good search term as well since i believe that's what their enterprise policies are named
@aud @davidgerard Is it the extra non ml.chat ones? I found some a few weeks ago
@froztbyte @aud yeh pile of that shit, including ones i know i fucking disabled
@davidgerard @aud I’m afk now but I’ll check when I get home. Think these ones I found the other day showed up in the last 3~5 weeks
Afaict they’re pulling the bayfucker “we’ll respect your choice… for that old thing we’ve deprecated” playbook of evading consent by adding n+ new tickboxes
@davidgerard @aud a'ight finally keyboard
browser.ml.chat is was the first setting
later they added more shit under browser.ml, with browser.ml.enabled supposed to be controlling the entire set (I haven't verified)
browser.tabs.groups.smart is a different branch for the tabs feature
I _think_ this shit all launched in 138, but I can't find my notes file now so treat that as data coming from unreliable squishy brainmeats
@davidgerard @aud here is the other thing that I found: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-link-previews-firefox/
the post itself is from april but something in august got me looking and then found it there
other refs:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/ml/
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/ml/extensions.html
