I mean it seems to me the opt-in part is when they say it will be opt-in by it potentially being a button on the toolbar. Though the dev acknowledges not everyone will see that as opt-in.
Source: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
I can understand why people have issues with that, but let's at least keep criticisms to what they've actually said?
Ok, I genuinely might be reading this wrong and the other guy won't communicate, so:
The way I read that is "we will have a button that's there that you can click to activate an AI feature" (though it's unclear if that's actually what it'll be like when finalised). And yeah, I'd rather that was an extension or something I'd go and toggle on if I wanted. That said, I also don't consider that to be "on by default".
And before anyone misunderstands more, I hate the addition of AI in everything and don't think Firefox should do this. That's not the point I'm arguing.