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Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds

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Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds | TechCrunch

As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter.

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Is no chatbot a choice?
- Literally in the second sentence of the article "opt-in"
  
  Wasting money and development resources is not though.
  
  I read that as opting into the early access, not as opting in to having AI in Firefox. Hope it is the way you read it.
My preferred chatbot is “none”.
Where is the demand for ai on Firefox?
- It's internal. They are becoming irrelevant (their browser market share have been shrinking for years now), so they are jumping all the new hype trends now. They literally just became an ad company. We have Google, Apple, Brave and Mozilla all being an ad companies that produce browsers.
  
  But hey, atleast we have Falkon browser. Except for being based on WebKit the browser itself isn't currently maintained by an ad company.
  Is Mozilla still nonprofit or are they changing their moto?
  
  Microsoft dominated with IE back in the day for the same reason Chrome and Safari are the dominant choices. People don't tend to change the default if it works okay enough. Firefox dropped heavily years ago as the market was saturated with other new choices already installed on mobile and Chromebooks, but recent numbers are about the same as they have been for a while. Maybe even still growing, as all the numbers I find are percentages, and there's no doubt we've had an explosion of device use.
Someday I'll just switch to Waterfox or some firefox fork that doesn't have this shit baked in. Although, I would much rather have an alternative written from a new browser engine in Rust, Go, or at least something more sane and as performant than C / C++.
Anti Commercial-AI license

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