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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Remember when they had a "kill switch" for javascript?

[–] SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's available as an extension: https://webextension.org/listing/javascript-toggler.html

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Used to be native. Like the slop kill switch currently is. Then won't be.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

For years and years I've been using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript2/

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