Make AI Features Opt-In/Make Disabling AI Features Simple

[Herbburgleman]

Hello,

Today I highlighted some text and clumsily selected a wrong item from the drop down menu, and was disgusted to see I had started some AI slop built into Firefox. I then spent some time trying to figure out how to disable all the AI features that had been added/integrated into Firefox and enabled without my knowledge.

I don't care for AI. I don't want it running on my machine locally. I do not want my browser interacting with external AI without my knowledge. Period. I'm alarmed this crap was enabled without my knowledge or consent.

And if you like using AI, power to you. Similar to a variety of personal choices, I am happy for those who partake. Just don't force it on me. Enabling these features by default and not notifying users adequately is just awful. To me it is clear these features are not wanted or useful because if they were, you would allow users to opt in rather than force this on all users. I'm sure there is a rea$on this stuff gets stealth enabled for all users.

There should, at an absolute bare minimum, be a very clear setting that disables/removes ALL of the AI elements of Firefox. I should NOT have to consult a non-Mozilla guide to find all the dozen or so about:config entries to disable.

Absolutely shameful behavior and disrespectful to users. I expect better from a company presenting a product as a more consumer friendly and privacy-focused alternative to Edge or Chrome. The differences get smaller every update.

[Jon]

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[654743]

+1

Please add a single button that globally disables ALL AI features.

I thought I had turned it all off, then I'm watching a YouTube video, and suddenly out of nowhere an AI summary of the video pops up, obscuring the video...

If you're going to "move fast and break things", give us an option to opt out of it.

I'm on the stable channel for a reason, if I wanted experimental features I'd use the beta.

[Cocaine_Owlbear]

This is a pretty simple idea, and would be super easy to implement. In fact, it would save money and headaches going forward:

Remove all AI from Firefox.

The benefits would be immediate and immense: you would no longer have to deal with that whole section of code. You would probably be able to actually hear the cheers from your userbase when you announced the decision. You would no longer be helping to push an immoral, unethical, privacy-shredding, environmentally disastrous technology. You could focus on making a web browser that was better at... browsing the web. You could address years-old stability issues in Firefox Mobile with the money you saved. The potential benefits are immense and there really aren't any drawbacks.

Thank you for your consideration.

[johua]

I would also like AI features to be disabled by default/opt-in and there needs to be a clear, easy button that disables or removes the features entirely.

[PatricksUser]

I do not like AI garbage, and I do not want to produce any AI garbage. It's very annoying to have to go to about:preferences after every update and make sure that all AI garbage is disabled.

It would be better to have a "leave me alone forever" toggle related to AI. This would disable every AI feature currently built into the browser, and any future AI garbage your CEO makes you add.

[pacavegano]

I have numerous objections to "AI", related to: accuracy, environmental impact, human agency, ethics and PRIVACY. I have been a happy user of Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator, but if it continues to try to force "AI" on me, I will be searching for a new browser (or at least an "AI"-free fork).

[bot-Loathe]

AI should be disabled as a once-off user selection.

I don't want to use AI, I will never want to use AI. If AI is to be used in some parts of the firefox browser, it should have a blanket-ban option, at the individual user's choice. After which AI is never to be used in that browser. There is no future-feature of AI that will ever make it appealing. It should be easy (and permanent) to disable AI across the board.

[morello]

I AGREE

[tb4]

I do not want AI in my browser. I started seeing the "Ask an AI Chatbot" on right-click on all pages recently and today some kind of AI summary window showed up by clicking and holding (though the popup did allow me to back out of whatever I had accidentally triggered). I finally found that it is possible to disable the right-click menu suggestion (counterintuitively, only by hovering over that same right-click menu suggestion to ask a chatbot...) and to disable ML features in about:config, but I'm frustrated that this junk was enabled by default, confusing to disable, and that Mozilla is wasting money on this at all.

Please get rid of the AI trash, make it exclusively opt-in, and make it extremely simple to COMPLETELY disable. Furthermore, I would like Mozilla to stop wasting money on integrating slop generators, which nobody who uses this browser wants. Trying to win over users from other browsers by en**bleep**tifying this one will only drive away your long-term userbase (I've been using this browser since 2004).

[tb4]

+1 Extremely frustrated with Mozilla wasting resources and time on these features and especially with their showing up without being enabled by me.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[c0d3h4x0r]

+1,000,000. Please surface a single global "Enable AI features" setting, and default it to OFF. Nobody wants that stuff, and it definitely shouldn't have been silently jammed into Firefox without anyone's consent!