#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
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#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.
It is a trap.
It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.
Don't believe their lies.
This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!
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#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.
It is a trap.
It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.
Don't believe their lies.
This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!
@yoasif what's the tl;dr -
@yoasif what's the tl;dr
@jdp There's a TL;DR at the top of the post!
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#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.
It is a trap.
It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.
Don't believe their lies.
This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!
@yoasif Your premise and rage seems misplaced. They made AI opt-in, not opt-out.
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@yoasif Your premise and rage seems misplaced. They made AI opt-in, not opt-out.
@targetdrone What is the default setting of the AI slider?
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@targetdrone What is the default setting of the AI slider?
@yoasif The "AI enhancements" are all marked "available"; none are marked "enabled". I'd call that opt-in.
If you want to be mad at Mozilla, fine, but frankly there's a whole lot of egregious abuse of AI out there by all the other players. For once Mozilla has done something far better than their usual approach of "here, have annoying stupid features nobody wants while we degrade your ad blockers". I'll give them this one.
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@yoasif The "AI enhancements" are all marked "available"; none are marked "enabled". I'd call that opt-in.
If you want to be mad at Mozilla, fine, but frankly there's a whole lot of egregious abuse of AI out there by all the other players. For once Mozilla has done something far better than their usual approach of "here, have annoying stupid features nobody wants while we degrade your ad blockers". I'll give them this one.
@targetdrone Opt-ins don't look like opt-ins for Mozilla: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html
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