AI Controls (formerly 'kill switch') are landing in today's Firefox Nightly, and will land with Firefox 148 later this month.
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AI Controls (formerly 'kill switch') are landing in today's Firefox Nightly, and will land with Firefox 148 later this month.
For the full details, see the Firefox blog https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/
@firefoxwebdevs Question: did Mozilla heard and considered 966 answers (on their own blog, so not so fedi biased) and why not?
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/113012 -
@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social
So people can trigger a download by error clicking on that huge popup wide button, right?
Isn't that a well studied example of #DarkPattern?
How many times such button will be shown? Each time a user create a new tab or only the first time?
Each time you raise the probability of erroneous click!
Please make these #AI enhancements fully opt-in.@giacomo @firefoxwebdevs I detailed how Mozilla uses dark patterns in Link Previews to get people to enable AI: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html
You may enjoy reading it.
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@ambiguous_yelp @firefoxwebdevs I was convinced the damage is irreparable. Wasn't everything just deleted?
@nieuemma @ambiguous_yelp @firefoxwebdevs Well, unlike what they are doing elsewhere, there is an edit history. They could go back.
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AI Controls (formerly 'kill switch') are landing in today's Firefox Nightly, and will land with Firefox 148 later this month.
For the full details, see the Firefox blog https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/
@firefoxwebdevs Make it an optional extension.
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Stop portraying Mastodon users as the "anti-AI crazies".
Instead, ask yourself: "What is the relation between Mastodon users & Firefox?"
The answer:
An overwhelming number of Mastodon users used to be your champions.
They are tech people who used to recommend Firefox to the normies in their life. A crowd of mini-influencers, recommending your product.
And I don't understand why you go out of your way to alienate exactly these people.
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@jaffathecake @froztbyte exactly the same. You don't go around the ethical problem of the absence of authorship by invoking pathos (and borrowing legitimacy from disabled folks is morally sketchy to put it mildly).
Even more so as available technologies are far remote from being able to convey intent, context and nuance. This is misplaced half-baked solutionism.
@ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte Why do these creeps routinely weaponize users with accessibility needs to make their case when those users on balance are also *against* this shit?
This is so damn intellectually dishonest. Every time I see it in some AI Bro's socail media thread, youtube comments, etc people who use accessibility tools state definitely to not use them to make their case.
And yet you assholes won't stop. And you get furious when someone supposedly puts words in your mouth!
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@ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte Why do these creeps routinely weaponize users with accessibility needs to make their case when those users on balance are also *against* this shit?
This is so damn intellectually dishonest. Every time I see it in some AI Bro's socail media thread, youtube comments, etc people who use accessibility tools state definitely to not use them to make their case.
And yet you assholes won't stop. And you get furious when someone supposedly puts words in your mouth!
@reflex @ddelemeny @froztbyte There's no dishonesty here. Using a local model to help with alt text in PDFs is one of the features controlled by Firefox's AI control, so it's relevant to the topic.
I asked a clarifying question and got an answer.
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@ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte Why do these creeps routinely weaponize users with accessibility needs to make their case when those users on balance are also *against* this shit?
This is so damn intellectually dishonest. Every time I see it in some AI Bro's socail media thread, youtube comments, etc people who use accessibility tools state definitely to not use them to make their case.
And yet you assholes won't stop. And you get furious when someone supposedly puts words in your mouth!
@reflex @ddelemeny @jaffathecake @froztbyte they want to keep framing this as a deliberation over the merits of individual features instead of a, pretty straight forward, push for a separation of concerns between a web browser and extensions
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@reflex @ddelemeny @froztbyte There's no dishonesty here. Using a local model to help with alt text in PDFs is one of the features controlled by Firefox's AI control, so it's relevant to the topic.
I asked a clarifying question and got an answer.
@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny jake, I want to make a bit of a weird comparison here (and I beg that you please understand that this is not a threat or anything but a comparative reference)
do you _get_ that if all these conversations were happening in, like, a bar or something, a number of people would by now have asked to have you thrown out? your persistence in reply framing and what you take from posts comes across.... "obstinate" is the best word I can think of
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@reflex @ddelemeny @froztbyte There's no dishonesty here. Using a local model to help with alt text in PDFs is one of the features controlled by Firefox's AI control, so it's relevant to the topic.
I asked a clarifying question and got an answer.
@jaffathecake @ddelemeny @froztbyte It is dishonest to repeatedly frame your points from the view of marginalized people who did NOT ask you to champion them, and who have an entirely different set of concerns that Mozilla has barely ever recognized or focused on.
If Mozilla actually cared about accessibility, they would focus on accessibility, not scapegoat it as a marketing tool for something else they have decided to do against user wishes.
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@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny jake, I want to make a bit of a weird comparison here (and I beg that you please understand that this is not a threat or anything but a comparative reference)
do you _get_ that if all these conversations were happening in, like, a bar or something, a number of people would by now have asked to have you thrown out? your persistence in reply framing and what you take from posts comes across.... "obstinate" is the best word I can think of
@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny hm. I'm replying to people who are engaging with me.
I wouldn't personally ask for someone to be kicked out of a bar for dialogue like this, when I'd directly engaged with them, even if I didn't agree with their point of view. If I didn't want to continue the chat, I'd simply stop chatting.
Your position here is alarming to me, but maybe there's some cultural difference going on that I don't understand.
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@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny hm. I'm replying to people who are engaging with me.
I wouldn't personally ask for someone to be kicked out of a bar for dialogue like this, when I'd directly engaged with them, even if I didn't agree with their point of view. If I didn't want to continue the chat, I'd simply stop chatting.
Your position here is alarming to me, but maybe there's some cultural difference going on that I don't understand.
@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny I'm talking about your attitude and style of responses across, well, all the threads the last couple of weeks
a number of people have expressed displeasure and frustration, and (it comes across as though) you just shrug them off
sure, there may be cultural differences, but this dynamic appears as a running theme (and _reinforces_ why people are frustrated)
again, don't mean this as an attack or whatever, but I ... wanted to bring it to your attention
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@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny I'm talking about your attitude and style of responses across, well, all the threads the last couple of weeks
a number of people have expressed displeasure and frustration, and (it comes across as though) you just shrug them off
sure, there may be cultural differences, but this dynamic appears as a running theme (and _reinforces_ why people are frustrated)
again, don't mean this as an attack or whatever, but I ... wanted to bring it to your attention
@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny is this something you've done personally? As in, you've engaged someone in conversation in a bar, and they've said something, not abusive, but just something you disagree with. They've made no attempt to talk to you without you talking to them first. And you've asked for them to be removed from the premises?
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@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny is this something you've done personally? As in, you've engaged someone in conversation in a bar, and they've said something, not abusive, but just something you disagree with. They've made no attempt to talk to you without you talking to them first. And you've asked for them to be removed from the premises?
@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny yes, I have
it's usually pretty clear when it's necessary (everyone the person speaks to goes no-expression and tries to cut conversations short and/or get away from them)
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@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny is this something you've done personally? As in, you've engaged someone in conversation in a bar, and they've said something, not abusive, but just something you disagree with. They've made no attempt to talk to you without you talking to them first. And you've asked for them to be removed from the premises?
@jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny Um, you are being abusive, though. You are straw manning people's arguments, white knighting things nobody asked you to, and refusing to answer very direct questions, usually while deflecting.
In other words you are not engaging in honest dialog, you appear intractable and dismissive of the audience. If you really believe Fedi is the space you describe it as, nobody is keeping you, or Mozilla here.
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@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny yes, I have
it's usually pretty clear when it's necessary (everyone the person speaks to goes no-expression and tries to cut conversations short and/or get away from them)
@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny I agree it can be different if the person is trying to get away, and is unable to, but that absolutely is not the case here, correct?
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@jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny Um, you are being abusive, though. You are straw manning people's arguments, white knighting things nobody asked you to, and refusing to answer very direct questions, usually while deflecting.
In other words you are not engaging in honest dialog, you appear intractable and dismissive of the audience. If you really believe Fedi is the space you describe it as, nobody is keeping you, or Mozilla here.
@reflex @froztbyte @ddelemeny I don't believe I described Fedi as something negative. What did I miss?
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@reflex @froztbyte @ddelemeny I don't believe I described Fedi as something negative. What did I miss?
@jaffathecake @froztbyte @ddelemeny You are doing it again.
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@froztbyte @reflex @ddelemeny I agree it can be different if the person is trying to get away, and is unable to, but that absolutely is not the case here, correct?
@jaffathecake @reflex @ddelemeny it is in fact exactly the case here
you occupy a position of (some, limited, specific) power: you are the designated voice voice representing a certain aspect of moz/fx here
for _that reason_ people would want to follow you
for _almost every post you make_ people are (per the metaphor) inching away from you
it's ... not great
