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Firefox Sidebar Includes AI Chatbot Now
(lemmy.world)
Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html
Alarms very heightened.
I switched to Waterfox a few months ago and have no complaints about it. I also signed up for their new, paid search engine ($5/month) literally about 15 minutes ago in order to support them. (Plus, be the customer not the product and all that.)
I think I might also subscribe to either Firefox Relay or MDN Plus too, though, since I do want Mozilla to still survive. Firefox forks need Firefox to still be around.
This is a fine and noble notion that is undermined by, you know, capitalism.