[zmk5]

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

[roughly]

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.

[ajkjk]

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

[jawilson2]

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

[Havoc]

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

[account42]

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

[Havoc]

>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

[Ekaros]

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...

[squigz]

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

[techjamie]

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.

[JohnFen]

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

[squigz]

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

[JohnFen]

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.

[shrimp_emoji]

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