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by t_mann 215 days ago
> Honestly people who deny any usefulness of AI are getting dangerously close to flat-earthers by now.

What made you jump to that conclusion? My guess about someone who's using a non-mainstream browser and figuring out how to configure it to their liking is that they're likely also using AI in more ways than the standard Chat-Webinterface, eg Agents, CLI tools, MCP,... To give an analogy, rolling your eyes over brainrot memes isn't denying the usefulness of smartphones or messengers either. The underlying sentiment is being critical of things that get pushed down our throats through A/B-optimized patterns that ultimately serve other interests than your own, profits or darker.
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dzikimarian 215 days ago
Making a very simple feature and enabling it, with option to disable it is no pushing down the throat, nor dark pattern.

Please don't compare it to Google or Microsoft products that give you "Enable now/Remind later" or just no option at all.

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t_mann 215 days ago
It's the beginning, A/B-testing takes time...
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dzikimarian 215 days ago
How much time do you expect? People complain at least since FF4 release, which was 14 years ago. Today this is still most customizable browser on the market.
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t_mann 214 days ago
Much of this thread is people complaining about on-by-default features and hard-to-find configurations. We're really just talking about a continuation of a trend.
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