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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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/

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

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

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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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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Firefox is not the devil, but "ideologies aside", the basic idea is:

  1. (Just like microsoft), They've could just decide to put it in one of the "many" variant of the product, name it FoxAI, let the users decide and call a day. Instead, they've chosen to force a very heavy component like that on the main version out of blue.

  2. Switched or not. Now, you will have 'way' more bloat on a browser, who should be focused on speed and performance.

  3. The whole thing about AI on free stuff is getting as much data as possible to train. You have to trust them to switch it off completely.