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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)
(lemmy.world)
Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware
Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/
Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/
Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/
More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/
You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/
GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai
You can find all the links on Mastodon<
There different kinds of AI and some run just fine locally or even on mobile. Not everything is a big LLM.
I am aware, but none of those are the kind of AI that anyone who makes a web browser wants to put into one.
The whole point of shoving LLM assistants into products is for tracking. People share their intimate thoughts with LLMs. They plot murders. They fall in love with it. They most certainly ask for summaries of this quarter’s unreleased earnings report. In a browser, they ask it to do the research for them, and depend on what it tells them in kind. They trust it alone with their deepest desires and their darkest thoughts. That’s worth so much more than HTTP_REFERRER and a tracking pixel, and those are already worth billions.
What an incredible opportunity to seize the means of information. It’s every capitalists wet dream to be an integral part of the ultimate humanity control machine.
And that is why it needs to be stopped, even if we assume good intentions. We cannot throw up our hands and allow this to be normalized. This must be mocked and ridiculed and made to seem as ridiculous as it is. It must be monetarily penalized. It must be stopped.