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stevesr0
Hi all, read in recent issue of Linux magazine (=Linux Pro Magazine) that Firefox version 148 has a switch that users can turn on to shut OFF all AI functions.
Not sure what the whole truth is about this and its impact.
Anybody done this?
Brian Masinick
I just tried it and Blocked all AI features. That’s how I’ll keep it unless any issues arise; I’ve already done other things to eliminate AI and they’ve worked fine elsewhere.
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wildstar84
@Brian – care to elaborate on your “other things?” Enquiring “NI” (natural intelligence) minds would like to know!
Xunzi_23
One important NI Improvement for ffox or other browsers
The best switch to improve ffox privacy is using LibreWolf.
NoAi Duck
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/search?q=%sTurn off Firefox Suggest (Sponsored and Non-Sponsored)
use 3 dot menu in address bar.Should anyone still use maga supportive google directly
In the Add Site Search window, create a Name like Google No AI.
Enter “https://google.com” in the Shortcut field.
Enter “{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s” in the URL with %s in place of query field and select Add.use mojeek
Mojeek is adamant that it “will not replace search results with AI-generated answers.”If you are prepared to support a paid project metager is one of the finest most privacy respecting
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Brian Masinick
@Brian – care to elaborate on your “other things?” Enquiring “NI” (natural intelligence) minds would like to know!
“Other things” is a general statement, and in general any time I see “AI” I try to make my own choices.
As Steve was asking, I got rid of the AI tendencies from Firefox.
@Xunzi_23 mentioned on of the other things: I use DuckDuckGo and they conveniently added the noai alternative, which I use.Google and Yahoo still try to push AI at me; I’ve not shut their blabbering off (yet); maybe one of you knows a switch to flip there; if so, I’ll try it; generally speaking I look for myself. Search is NOT an area that I want or need “their” summary; just provide what I need. As it is, I try to utilize other mechanisms that don’t force such things AT me!
When I’m on my computer I seem to have more success choosing what I want; it’s on my phone that I haven’t completely blocked these guys, but I still make my own decisions there too.
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Another “thing” I regularly do on the computer, and @Xunzi_23 is well aware of this, @andfree, @Xunzi_23 and I all keep track of Ungoogled Chromium and use it fairly often; that helps too, because it utilizes the core browser technology that many browsers use, but it specifically removes the many “call backs” to Google. Maybe some of you would be surprised at how much that speeds things up: it’s without a doubt the fastest and leanest of the major full featured Web browsers.
Some people like “Brave”. I tried it out a few years ago. At least back then, it used advertisers too, but it went a different direction – it chose ONLY the advertisers that lined it’s pockets. I don’t know what’s different about that compared to anything else, so I stopped using it. On my phone I have DuckDuckGo and that helps. It’s when I’m using Yahoo Mail or Gmail on my phone that they both tend to summarize: “this Email is about ____”. I’ll say this: they are getting better about their summaries, and yet if I wanted another entity to read and summarize all of my Email I’d get someone or something to do it for me. They’re doing it, but I didn’t ASK for it; that’s something I’d turn off; as it is, I read as most my Email from my computer INSTEAD of my phone so that I don’t have to deal with the “intrusion”!
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