Firefox offering me "Hey try AI mode!" after I disabled as much of this shit as I could find

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@pikesley (jake archibald going to accuse you of threatening him personally or being crass that you called him a liar even when you didn't in how many posts, do you think?)

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@pikesley Dropping in the next major release, iirc? It's already in my FF Dev Edition.

[firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social]

@pikesley shipping in the next version, 148, later this month. https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@firefoxwebdevs so for now I just have to play whack-a-mole with disabling things under `about:config`?

Who is this for? Who asked for this?

[unkx@icosahedron.website]

@pikesley @firefoxwebdevs Google asked for it. It is for the fascists.

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@firefoxwebdevs

It did it again. I cannot tell you how much I never ever want to see this

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@pikesley @firefoxwebdevs

[cholling@bytes.programming.dev]

@pikesley @firefoxwebdevs It's called librewolf.

[firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social]

@pikesley The 'kill switch' is in the next version, 148. It's already in beta if you want to jump there now, otherwise it hits release at the end of the month.

[firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social]

@andypiper a white hole?

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@firefoxwebdevs I presume this will all just get reenabled a few releases down the line though ‍️

[firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social]

@pikesley if that happens, please reach out to me and I'll get a bug report together.

about:config is in some ways a generic KV store, but the AI Controls are absolutely intended to be persistent user preferences.