"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in." (Don't they mean, if it was opt out?) Mozilla could have said the exact same thing. And yet, a lot of gullible people here were singing their praises for their quickly coming up with a lie about how they'd implement an "AI killswitch" when they faced public outcry for announcing that they're becoming an "AI first browser" last December. Ask yourself this: 1. If they were truly serious about the "killswitch," why did they just blurt it out in response to the backlash that obviously surprised them? 2. People I know who actually audit web browser behavior soon found that the "killswitch" really didn't do much, only disabling a few subtle things "AI" in their browser is allowed to do, at best. Why would such an evil fucking "feature" that's rapidly accelerating climate destruction and fucking many different facets of modern life up... be opt out? 3. Why the fuck would such a nasty fucking thing be in a web browser in the first place? 4. And considering all that, a lot of the fools who sung Mozilla's praises for the supposed "killswitch" also saw how their reps on Mastodon tried to pretend that it's necessary for translation. To deliberately confuse people about such a nasty fucking "feature" that's sucking all the fresh water out of the Earth, and by no coincidence, also gives the most evil shitheads on Earth easier access to your sensitive data, all while encouraging you to delegate your thinking to their technofascist slop bot. And after all that, you still trust them? I know exactly what's going on. Because Google deliberately destroyed their search, it fucked up Mozilla's monetization model for Firefox. Which was to receive payment from Google to make Google Search default. New CEO walks in, and probably wears invisible Saville Row suits, surrounded by sycophants. "Google's all in on the torment nexus, so now, so are we! AI FIRST BROWSER! Papa needs a second yacht!" I don't know about you, but if a CEO announces loudly and proudly that they're jumping on a massively evil bandwagon, completely changing the stated purpose of their web browser while being certain doing this shit will make him even wealthier... I wouldn't be so naive to assume that their "killswitch" was anything but a lie blurted out in panic, to be designed to function as a placebo for gullible fools. But then again, I'm not a sucker ripe for exploitation as society crumbles further and further. Yes, I know this is about Twitch. I'm about to cancel my account there. Thanks for the heads up. @davidgerard@circumstances.run #NoAI PS: I know that @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net devs are working hard to keep evil shit from Chrome out of their browser, and I'm using Vivaldi right now. And that also applies to Vanadium. Same goes for @librewolf@chaos.social and @tor when it comes to Firefox. Until we have an engine that's totally independent of Google and Mozilla, those are your best web browser options. Vanadium is the Chrome fork that's exclusive to GrapheneOS, but LibreWolf is available for the vast majority of desktop OSes, and Vivaldi and Tor are available on nearly all widely used desktop and mobile OSes. https://youtu.be/rE4Ucw-zbpc