[saurik]

I mean, it seems like you can disable this under chrome:flags and looking for the Side Search experiment, which seems pretty "easy to disable". I think the argument, though, was that having to whack-a-mole things in the first place is annoying because it implies a broken incentive on behalf of the developers and Firefox doesn't seem like they are trying to be different here: they are just trying to not be Google... which is like, cool and all? but I want a bold alternative that isn't even playing by the same rules as Google, and that's not Firefox.

[ok_dad]

Good points, I agree, companies should at most pop up a tab telling us about the benefits of a feature and how to enable it, but keep it disabled by default. Better yet, they should take input from users on what they want to see in browsers, it’s probably not some additional tab that I didn’t even read about and just closed because I hate that crap.

I’m guess just pointing out this particular case is especially bad, why couldn’t Google start to hijack searches on internal company sites in the future? This feature seems ripe for abuse or errors causing issues.

[j33zusjuice]

I sure hope there’s something in this that identifies sensitive fields. Are they going to read everyone’s SSN and credit card information? Wtf is this?