Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
Trust, once lost, is *incredibly* hard to regain.
I'm trying to keep perspective that this account is (maybe?) run by devs, not the brainrotted management, and the devs still believe they will be allowed to right the ship.
But I find it hard to believe that they're going to be rolling out a prominent "AI kill switch" anytime soon. Not when the CEO says he's turning Firefox into an AI browser. If there was going to be a kill switch, it would have been implemented along with the first AI features -- and since it wasn't, the trust was lost.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
I like that Firefox is (through 
@jaffathecakeJake Archibald) communicating. But the point is not really if you can disable the features TBH.
I think the problem is how Firefox/Mozilla is perceived: Putting a whole lot of resources into AI gambles (that the community does not seem to be too thrilled about to say the least) while seemingly losing all focus on the Open Web as something to work on, strengthen and defend. Especially with Google/Chrome's dominance.
The new CEO coming in and just hammering "AI" while never talking about how exactly those systems can only exist by harming the open web is a bad sign.
It's not so much about distrust of the engineers working on Firefox and them adding a switch or not. It's about a communicated vision that seemingly pushes aside all the things people want Firefox to exist for.
