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by NicuCalcea 202 days ago
Still, just don't use them? I have no interest in AI in my browser and have had no difficulty avoiding it in Firefox.
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That makes zero sense. How do you have no difficulty ? Are you going ahead and disabling like the below ? If not, then I am afraid you are hallucinating like an AI and not really "avoiding it" in Firefox. Doing the below also improves performance, memory consumption and battery life.

    about:config
    user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false); 
    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false); 
    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);
    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false); 
    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false); 
    user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false); 
    user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);
    user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false); 
    user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled", false);
    user_pref("pdfjs.enableAltTextModelDownload", false); 
    user_pref("pdfjs.enableGuessAltText", false);
I've done absolutely nothing to disable it other than saying "no thanks" whenever Firefox offered to turn on a feature after an update.