• no account or login required.
• it's an addon (and one you have to go get), not baked-in.
• limited to queries about content you're currently looking at.
  (it's not a general 'search' or queries engine)
• llm is hosted by mozilla, not a third party.
• session histories are not retained or shared, not even with mistral (it's their model).
• user interactions are not used to train.

I want to point out that by downvoting this, you're reducing the visibility of the post for other people, therefore making less people informed of the change.

no, i don't want to meet orbit, thank you very much.

I appreciate the option to not install it.

Now if only Mozilla could migrate their built-in AI stuff to this optional extension so it doesn't come pre-installed, that'd be great

No thanks, I'll pass.

Firefox, tell your creepy little friend he can get the fuck off my property!

I'm starting to warm up to this stuff. There is a future rapidly hurtling towards us where, if you take the time to read and think for yourself, you will become a genius. It was happening already in some stem fields where people used GUI tools without ever reading what the buttons did, and if you took the time to read the manuals and the underlying methods, you could become vastly more competent than anybody else in your team. This "AI" bullshit is just extending the lazy culture out to every piece of information on the web, where average Joe is already unable to concentrate beyond 140 characters. Those that take the time to learn the fundamentals and read deeply will have vastly superior knowledge of any subject, while the majority will be spoon fed superficial summaries filled with errors and no way of realising.

This is why I don't use direct Firefox. I use soft forks like Librewolf, Mull and now Fennec