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hambandana
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Status: New idea

It seems that Firefox has switched to an LLM based translation option by default. This is a problem for a couple reasons:

  1. As another poster has mentioned, it can invent words that were not in the original text and doesn't necessarily choose an appropriate dialect.
  2. It forces the user to enable ALL of the AI tools just to access a basic translation feature. This is frankly objectionable to the point I may abandon Firefox entirely. Users should be allowed to pick which AI features they want to use.

Decisions like this, user-hostile shoehorning decisions, being made by Mozilla make me trust this browser less. It's getting to be indistinguishable from Chrome, and you should be worried about that if you don't want to lose a substantial part of you user base. In addition, it creates a very negative user experience, since I feel like I am being manipulated and my ability to consent to specific technology is being removed.

I would genuinely prefer an option on what translation engine to use, similar to the options given for search engines. Until then, I will be looking for an alternative browser.