this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
410 points (97.7% liked)

Technology

80254 readers
4576 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
410
AI controls is coming to Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 day ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
117 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about they just... not include the LLM bullshit in the first place? Just make a browser that strictly renders text and images according to W3C standards?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The only LLM here is the chatbot which nobody is being forced to use.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 19 hours ago

The fact that it's part of the browser at all is a problem. It shouldn't ever be in a browser. All it should be is a tool to strictly download and render W3C compliant text and images. Everything else should be a unique program - and no, Electron is not "unique" - it's just another copy of an awful browser.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When chrome came out, it was pretty much that. Super fast, very bare bones. But people loved it because of the speed and the simplicity.

Im curious how Orion will turn out. There is supposed to be an alpha for Linux coming out now this February.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 day ago

When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It was just Safari (WebKit) at that point.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Now, people will complain that pizzaz doesn"t load at all, because Chrome does a vaguely defined JS-thing in a opinionated way. And then they use something Chromium-based.