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I saw that. See where it says “Remove AI Chatbot”? I clicked on that. It’s gone now.
Opt-out culture is how you get Windows. This is not normal or okay. Firefox exists just as an upstream these days.
Windows is the "ask me later" culture
But why was it there in the first place? Who asked for it?
Lots of regular users use AI
Most 'regular' users aren't using Firefox. FF has something like 5% market share — it's basically just for people techie enough to understand why chromium-based browsers are bad. I'm willing to bet that there's a significant overlap between those users and users who understand why AI is bad.
Firefox can't survive with just those users. That's why there's features that regular users like and that power users can just disable.
Sadly, I've seen one too many people asking for it.
It's the norm now. Firefox already only has 3% market share, if they don't keep up with modern features then they'll probably just die out altogether. Doesn't matter if it's popular with FOSS evangelists or the anti-AI crowd, they'll still use FF because it's better than any alternative for their purposes.
If this feature is intended for the people who want it, then it should be opt-in.
Why? Isn't it already opt-in? It doesn't force you to use it, and the button to disable it just hides it from the menu.