A follow-up on Firefox pushing a "labs" feature that gives you a sidebar to talk to an AI chatbot.
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113098293672475886
On Saturday I filed a bug on Firefox requesting that Firefox either offer a compiler flag / build channel for removing the AI chatbot feature, or move the AI chatbot to a plugin which users could choose to uninstall. Because I wish to avoid brigading, I am not going to link this bug.
I got an *illuminating* (and discouraging) reaction from a Mozilla dev I'd like to share.
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