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After Outcry, Firefox Promises "Kill Switch" That Turns Off All AI Features

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After Outcry, Firefox Promises "Kill Switch" That Turns Off All AI Features - Pawb.Social

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Dec 28 at 5:23amWeb
Show threadTheFririshDec 28
FUCK the Mozilla Corporation and of course fuck their daddy Google.
Show threadThotDragonDec 28
Too late, I’m already on librewolf
Show threadGnugitDec 28
How is it? I’m liking waterfox right now.
Show threadThotDragonDec 28
Well tbh it’s Firefox but without the concerning direction Mozilla is going. I don’t want or need anything else. No point for me doing it other than Mozilla pivoting to AI. I’m glad it’s an option but fuck Mozilla for ruining a good thing.
Show threadarinDec 28
I’ve been enjoying librewolf
Show threadFrostyDec 28
I’m also enjoying Waterfox.
Show threadShifty EyesDec 28
Effectively they are the same to me feature wise. The main difference is that Waterfox lets you login to your mozilla account and has the mobile app, so I can sync my bookmarks between devices.
Show threadLauchmelderDec 28
Librewolf also lets you use Firefox Sync, you just have to enable it in the settings first. But yeah, I use Waterfox on mobile because Librewolf has no Android version
Show threadgwl [he/him]Dec 28
Honestly basically identical in most ways that matter, so far
Show threadkenJan 22

LibreWolf is a great project but was killing my eyes at night by not being able to follow dark mode settings in Private Mode. So I forked it into what is now Konform Browser. Besides unlocking theming and some other privacy-related tweaks on the preferences pane, it goes even further than LW in disabling built-in remote connections, snoopware, and AI integrations.

If you are a Linux user who haven’t yet found the right Firefox fork for you I hope you will consider it <3

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Konform Browser

Taking privacy, security and freedom to the next level. Releases: https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases Packages: https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/-/packages Arch Linux AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/konform-browser

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Show threadhayvanDec 28

More people should be aware of the forks. Folks even on fediverse seem to treat Firefox like the proprietary products the other big browsers are.

Sure, Mozilla is going down a shitty path, but the biggest “kill switch” we have is Firefox licence and the awesome forks like Librewolf.

Show threadAkipDec 28
Still sounds like they want to implement AI into the browser and through the power of default enable it for millions of users with the ability to then alter the kill switch deal further down the road.
Show threadgaloisghostDec 28
A better headline would be: “After Outcry, Firefox promises to move all AI features to an opt-in browser extension”