• Kallestar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    Remember when every piece of Window$ software back in the day tried to get you to add their browser bar to your web browser? I really thought that would be the peak of how awful browser add-ons could get. Guess I wasn’t dreaming big enough to imagine a boondoggle as utterly useless as an LLM integrated into a browser. I mean, I hated Clippy at the time, but never imagined anyone (even a marketing clown) would try to jam him into a web browser, and have him remember everything you did online so he could chat with you about it.

    What an amazing idea to try to push users from reading articles to reading bullshit hallucinations of summaries of articles. AI really feels like the thing that’s pushing us to become the humans from Wall-E faster than any other invention right now.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
      2 months

      2006: “Install our browser toolbar! It offers a marginally useful feature, and it definitely doesn’t slow down your browser or send all your personal data to an evil corporate overlord! Promise!”

      2026: “Install our browser AI addon! It offers a completely useless feature, and it absolutely slows down your browser and sends all your personal data to an evil corporate overlord! Promise!”

  • nao@sh.itjust.works
    1 month

    What follows is a hands-on with Smart Window in Firefox 149 beta

    Mozilla says this was a flub; it will refine the onboarding around Smart Window to limit memory formation to post-opt-in activity only. That’s obviously the right fix.

    So was that a beta only issue?

  • nulltape@piefed.zipEnglish
    2 months

    So what are the best browsers to use now for privacy’s sake? I’m hesitant to use Librewolf anymore even

    • DJ Putler@lemmy.mlbot account
      2 months

      Cmon man one single conversation with Librewolf devs could clear this up. They have a Matrix. They would never compromise on removing malicious Mozilla features!