@budududuroiu @mike @firefoxwebdevs It's not about being able to turn off the features. It's about having to download and store them and give implicit permission to have them on your computer in the first place.

It's like someone saying "Hey, I mailed you that stack of books you want, but people told us they wanted more pictures so we made illegal copies of artworks and bound them in. The art pages come with preset double-sided tape on them so it's easy for you to stick the art pages together and not see them if you don't want. No harm, no foul, right?"

The harm isn't in the viewing (or not viewing), it's in the implied consent to the unethical behavior that made the viewing possible, and in asking customers to fix it after the fact.

@mike @firefoxwebdevs This is precisely where I get confused.

The web is an enormously large sea of connected dynamic content.

Why does the interface to that sea of content need to provide AI? Shouldn't the user use the interface to -find- AI in the sea of content?

For example, instead of the browser providing translation services, people who want translation services can go to their content page of choice to obtain them.

Make "default translator" a setting and let the user choose where to get it.

People who want AI-generated slop can go to their AI-generating slop provider of choice.

Why is it necessary to put it in the interface instead of leaving it in the sea?

This feels like Netscape Navigator "we must have an integrated email client" all over again.