I was excited to hear that Firefox was about to provide users with a way to globally disable "AI" - i.e. anything involving Large Language Models (LLMs). I eagerly downloaded 148.0, in the hopes of an improved browsing experience, minus whatever AI noise Mozilla could detect and suppress. Surely they could at least package all search queries in such a manner to prevent Google from including its untrustworthy AI summaries.
Sadly I found that the new turn-it-all-off switch only disabled chatbot-based features that are part of the Firefox browser. That's a step in the right direction, from my POV, having no use for tools that confabulate ("hallucinate") by design. (Of course if it had been my choice you wouldn't have wasted time and effort implementing those features in the first place.)
But please consider adding the option to disable AI use by search engines, not just Firefox itself.
I add -noai routinely, but sadly Google too frequently ignores it. And I'd love not to have to constantly remember to type it. Moreover I've heard that there are other controls, inaccessible from mere command lines. Perhaps using those would completely shut up this what I at least consider to be time wwasting rubbish.
