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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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They're going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?
That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.
Well no. They not gonna burn ai credits on that, they need it to identify your interests and sell you ads.
something an adblocker already done, without the unneccsary extra steps.
It ain't that easy, at least with uBlock Origin. The problem is that websites depend on many elements - ones that aren't obvious to the human eye and experience. An AI could potentially analyze all of the content and to where it leads, then remove the undesirable elements, such as trackers. For example, when I am making a payment at an unfamiliar website, I wouldn't know what services are key to a working transaction.
A fair bit of my browsing time is spent on figuring out how to not break a website with my adblocker - which is annoying, error prone, and not as effective as I would like.
So, AI will do the same thing as what light extensions already do, but consuming 4GB of RAM and maxing out CPU load?