Seriously though: I want (okay, demand) a version of Firefox with the "AI chatbot" functionality removed.
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I switched from Windows to Linux *specifically* so I wouldn't have to have an AI chatbot client on my computer so I don't understand why I'm supposed to find it acceptable the only Linux web browser includes an AI chatbox client.
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@mcc ONLY?
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@wtwagg Okay FINE, it was the ai chatbot client and also so I wouldn't have to have rounded window borders. So 2 things
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Also (separate issue from "AI"): I don't think the newest Firefox has hit my computer yet, can someone please explain to me (1) is this real and (2) if so how do I disable it
Andrew Kelley (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Mozilla is truly an advertisement company now. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, everybody at Mozilla.
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@mcc I hesitate to say this to someone as obviously tech savvy as yourself, but have you tried Librewolf?
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@wtwagg Yes. I have two problems.
1. I am concerned security response will be poor compared to a mainline firefox.
2. I could not get it to do normal things like search on Google. My privacy concerns are specific whereas the Librewolf team's privacy concerns are quite broad. -
@mcc Granted the security response isn't instant, but it isn't very long either.
And can't you just choose whatever search engine you want?
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@mcc agreed. At minimum there should be a build that just leaves these parts out.
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@wtwagg No. Your options are DuckDuckGo, "4get", "DuckDuckGo Lite", "MetaGer", "SearXNG", "StartPage" (???) and "Wikipedia".
I am told that if I want, I can write a search engine plugin. While this is true, it is also true that I can write my own web browser, and the documentation on how to do that second thing is better, but I haven't done it yet either
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I really need to stress that at this point, Firefox is much more aggressively and maliciously adware than Google Chrome, and this is *even given* that Google Chrome is trying to prevent you from being able to run an effective adblocker. Google Chrome and Firefox will both send information about your browsing to advertisers via a backchannel, but Chrome will warn you first. Chrome has features that drive you toward sites with ads but does not have ads *in the address bar*
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