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I filled it, but there's no avenue there to express my complete disdain for AI and how shit it can make a product. Just make everything AI optional, don't make me download data for shit I'll never use.
It's opt-in already, in fact you have to go out of your way to do it. And it's currently only used for offline, private language translation, to my knowledge.
That is a very good usecase considering the alternative is to send it to a Google translation server.
I feel like people need to actually read beyond the "Mozilla adds AI to Firefox" headlines.
I did the same thing. I just want a product or service that doesn't leverage AI. Mozilla's resources are better spent improving the web.
Of all the things you could want from Firefox. Of all the possibilities.
The primary, only, thing you could come up with is "I don't want privacy focused translation, because AI"
Without realizing the the grand majority of all translation tools that don't suck have been AI driven for like 8+ years (Long, long, before LLMs of today).
This is why we can't have nice things...
Also this one is really tenuous to the point I'll say fuck your interpretations of what I wrote. It should be: I don't want ANY translation to inflate the browser. Publish them as a separate exe or a Firefox plugin. They bundle it because it's a bunch of shit most people don't need and would never seek /download.
That's presumptuous, I'm perfectly aware of it, but I'm not downloading the grand majority of translation tools with my browser.