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Firefox has locally run AI features you can turn off easily. I don't see the harm. Occasionally I use the translation feature for foreign websites.
If you ask me, Firefox gets a lot of shit and it's blown completely out of proportion. Are they without flaw? Of course not, but it's not nearly as bad as people want you to believe.
AI features should be opt in, not opt out. Every time it updates it also often turns those features back on (at least a couple times for me)
I turned it off once and it stayed off.
the problem with Firefox AI implementation was more of a communication issue.
It's a purity race to oblivion : people who know and care use Firefox. They switched away from the default and by that very action they are in the tiny minority who actually has a grasp at problems and dare try to do something about. They are vocal about it, put efforts into the process so they in general want "more" and "better" according to their own criteria. It doesn't stop there though, once they have moved away for privacy or open source or sovereignty or whatever else, they want the other criteria and it won't stop.
It is recursive though, people who care a lot about some criteria move away from Firefox, the now "mainstream" within that community, then use e.g. Waterfox or LibreWolf. You can see this in any community which moves away from the mainstream choice really. There is a vocal minority within the minority and they do have genuine reasons and concern.
Once you use LibreWolf I bet there are other forks, etc, etc.
For those people what Firefox is doing is actually very bad because it goes back to what they wanted to move away from.