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It shouldn't be opout...
Im sure they can handle their time and money by themselves
They shown not to be able of doing this over and over again. They're paying their CEO 7 million too. Not only are they idiots with their time, but also idiots with their sweet Google money too
The people who want AI features are probably the same people who avoid
about:preferenceslike the plague. If it was opt-out it wouldn't benefit them in the eyes of investors, and would only serve to piss off power users like you and me.Besides, it is still kinda opt-in at the moment. The features are there, but aren't as in your face, and you can just ignore them, with the option of removing them entirely through settings.
We've seen a history of this crap being opt-in until no one opts in. Then it becomes opt-out, people opt-out, so they make it mandatory
Examples?
Microsoft windows
Examples from Mozilla?
newtab
What's that
There used to be an extremely popular and simple setting in
about:confignamedbrowser.newtab.url. Popular to the point where some people that would never otherwise touch these settings knew how to set this one. You could enter the URL that opens when clicking the little + / press ctrl + T. A common "newtab page" was google.com, because that was when search engines were still usable.Mozilla removed it in version 42 and replaced it with whatever you see nowadays on a new tab. They did this for tighter control over search, show you "recommended" sites (e.g. western mainstream media articles), previously visited sites, shill their product named Pocket that no one asked for or wanted (it was cancelled a few years later), and eventually even straight up sponsored content lol
Oh yeah I forgot about that one with how easy it was to disable
It should be opt out.
Firefox needs to be as good as it can for average joe out of the box. Opt in just means it'll die after wasting tons of resources on getting developed. This way, maybe firefox can build a higher market share with users with specific concerns like you and me getting to opt out.
The logic is that people who dislike the AI features are tech savvy enough to manually opt out themselves, but Average Joe Dumbass who barely knows how to type on a keyboard would rather have the AI, and they're too dumb to figure out how to "turn it on", so it's on by default.
Basically, Firefox is catering to tech illiterate morons at the expense of the tech savvy people.
unfortunately that's the market today. I'm fairly sure they could just not do a lot of these anti consumer features without major losses, but also there is a lot of pressure from investors, big companies and the market at large to add ai. I'm fine as long as i can spend a few minutes in settings to get rid of the stuff i don't like.