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Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews (www.quippd.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/foss@beehaw.org

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TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.

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[–] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Interestingly, I just interviewed the Waterfox developer, who actually references Oblivious HTTP and his interest in developing this into a paid feature for Waterfox.

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That is interesting!

BTW in case you're not aware, direct links to fedia.io like the one you posted just lead to a loginwall so you probably don't want to share those publicly. This one via beehaw.org works for everyone, though: https://beehaw.org/post/24563411

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago

Ooops, I posted a reply to someone earlier and got it right (and forgot this one). Thanks for the heads up (fixed now)!