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This is Opt-In. People really need to cool it with the Firefox hate.

We’ve all got enough history here to know that “opt-in” is a short step away from “opt-out”, which is a short step away from “we removed the toggle to simplify the user experience.” At this point any new “opt-in” feature in any piece of software or service is Chekhov's gun - all that announcement means is that at some point in the future I’m going to have to figure out how to remove this thing or replace this software or service.

It is understandably hard at this point to trust Firefox to do right things

Cool it with AI hate? Love Firefox, I don't understand slapping "AI" on a browser.

Just because you don’t want the feature doesn’t mean other don’t. I certainly would - assuming the implementation is privacy friendly

Ok, then install an extension for it? FF doesn't even come with ad-blocking yet which is useful to a lot more people.

>Ok, then install an extension for it?

Or build it in and people who don't want to use it don't?

Your stance of FF should only have the features I personally want and the features others want should be in extensions is frankly laughable

To me it is just usual Firefox behaviour chasing some trend or other. Adding features for sake of adding features. I wonder what is the over-under when this feature will be deprecated...

Do you, honestly, not see the benefits of LLMs, particularly in a browser?

I honestly don't. I do understand that others see benefits in it, but I don't really understand why.

What benefits do you think others see in it, and why do you think they're not benefits?

I'm not certain what benefits others actually get, but what I hear most often is translation and summaries.

I need translation rarely enough that it doesn't matter if the browser does it or not, and I have no interest at all in summaries of websites.

Do you, honestly, not see the benefits of blockchain, particularly in a browser?

If this was them bringing over window.ai from Chrome I'd say it would be good. I love the offline translation they added, and wouldn't mind something similar for LLM. But having a separate panel that's just basically chatgpt & co isn't impressive.

I'd much prefer an offline capable, leaner LLM that lets web devs do cool stuff.

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