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Disabling ML options permanently?

unhappyuser
Making moves

Hello, new here. 

I've been using Firefox for quite a while now, and I'm very frustrated. I think that it's extremely scummy and very unfair for Mozilla to hide the machine learning options in about:config without a single toggle to turn it all off. On top of that too, why do I have to turn it all off every other day? Why can it not just stay off? I feel like I'm playing wack-a-mole with it, it's horrible. 

My performance has also been awful since these changes started rolling out, and it seems to only be while Firefox is open. I'd rather not have to switch browsers, it's an annoying process... but gosh, it just speaks volumes that they went and did this. I don't know. I expected better from Mozilla, I thought they would not do the whole "Does Windows understand consent? Yes / I'll ask again in three days" thing. And for a bubble fad too, at that!

Is there possibly an add-on that will solve this for me? Or do we basically just have to put up with this (or find an alternative) for the time being?

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unhappyuser
Making moves

I'm not sure how to edit my post, if possible, but for the past few days since these changes have been really shoved on me, whenever I have Firefox open all the audio on my computer takes forever to play, videos lag, everything is just worse. Why is it doing that? What did they do to my browser to make it start doing that? So deeply frustrating and awful. 

siffemcon
Contributor

Type about:config in the address bar > press Enter

- click 'Accept the risk and continue' if that appears

- search for these > change the value to false

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled