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> Honestly people who deny any usefulness of AI are getting dangerously close to flat-earthers by now. What made you jump to that conclusion? My guess about so
by t_mann 10mo ago
> Honestly people who deny any usefulness of AI are getting dangerously close to flat-earthers by now.
What made you jump to that conclusion? My guess about someone who's using a non-mainstream browser and figuring out how to configure it to their liking is that they're likely also using AI in more ways than the standard Chat-Webinterface, eg Agents, CLI tools, MCP,... To give an analogy, rolling your eyes over brainrot memes isn't denying the usefulness of smartphones or messengers either. The underlying sentiment is being critical of things that get pushed down our throats through A/B-optimized patterns that ultimately serve other interests than your own, profits or darker.
- dzikimarian 10mo agoMaking a very simple feature and enabling it, with option to disable it is no pushing down the throat, nor dark pattern. Please don't compare it to Google or Microsoft products that give you "Enable now/Remind later" or just no option at all.
- t_mann 10mo agoIt's the beginning, A/B-testing takes time...
- dzikimarian 10mo agoHow much time do you expect? People complain at least since FF4 release, which was 14 years ago. Today this is still most customizable browser on the market.
- t_mann 10mo agoMuch of this thread is people complaining about on-by-default features and hard-to-find configurations. We're really just talking about a continuation of a trend.