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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

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[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Konform Browser is more recent Firefox (actually LibreWolf) fork which goes even further in debloating, removing "AI" functionality and disabling remote connections. It's based on Firefox ESR (like GNUZilla IceCat).

fedi thread

If you have concerns about the telemetry and browser metadata privacy parts of AI integrations, I think Konform, IceCat, Waterfox and Mullvad Browser are a lot more relevant than Zen...