You don't have to have the sidebar chatbot thing. When mozilla added these AI features, after the update the browser prompted me to whether I want it or not, with the "yes" and "no" being equally easy to select. It did not add them without consent. You can disable all AI features altogether, or you can completely remove chatbot sidebar specifically (with 2 clicks) and have the rest of the features if you want them.

Gosh most of the time when I read people complain about firefox, it gives me the impression they have not even used firefox.

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willis936 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's neat. Firefox has never prompted me on any of my instances and the sidebar is still present. Wish they would ask everyone for consent.

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utrack 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If you accidentally skipped it, go to Preferences -> AI Controls -> toggle on Block AI Enhancements, it disables everything.

	▲	kaiwn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He’s not saying he accidentally skipped the prompt, he’s saying he didn’t get any.

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blks an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would prefer a browser without any ai slop.

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PinkaDunka 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is article about Chrome doing something undesirable with AI. Which can be easily disabled by going into chrome://flags. And suggestion is to download Firefox which is also doing something undesirable with AI. Which is also can be easily disabled. Seems both browsers are quite similar in this regard, so suggestion to replace one with another is not very helpful?

	▲	j-bos 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ff doesn't download models unless you so opt in.