here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

let’s look at mozilla’s marketing blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

>Completely opt-in, you have full control, and if you try it and find it’s not for you, you can choose to switch it off.

haha no, I did nothing to opt into this. I opted out as strongly as I could and it still showed up to displace a menu item I frequently use. disabling it in my version of Firefox required yet another dive into about:config.

let’s look at mozilla’s marketing blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

>Completely opt-in, you have full control, and if you try it and find it’s not for you, you can choose to switch it off.

haha no, I did nothing to opt into this. I opted out as strongly as I could and it still showed up to displace a menu item I frequently use. disabling it in my version of Firefox required yet another dive into about:config.

but speaking of rolling out half-baked shit to users who didn’t ask for it, attached is all the documentation I could find for whatever the fuck the New Classic Window item is

the New Classic Window item disappeared when I disabled extensions.ml.enabled so it’s related but fuck if I could tell you how

let’s look at mozilla’s marketing blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

>Completely opt-in, you have full control, and if you try it and find it’s not for you, you can choose to switch it off.

haha no, I did nothing to opt into this. I opted out as strongly as I could and it still showed up to displace a menu item I frequently use. disabling it in my version of Firefox required yet another dive into about:config.

@zzt the deployment of the new feature flags will continue until the user opts into defeat, sagging from exhaustion at having to defensively check their browser every 72 seconds

this fucking pattern got big with facebook (you know, that beacon of user consent) since like **2012**, it is absolutely fucking wild to me that any moz person does this shit with a straight face then calls it choice. absolute fucking gaslighting

@zzt and then of course this toot stands a chance to get the bonus round of some weird fucker koolaidmanning through the wall and arguing about whether gaslighting has absolutes