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Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s also an option to bring your own LLM, with fields for model name, endpoint, and API token available for entry when the manual option is enabled. However, the page itself warns local models may not work correctly.

It looks like there's an option for people to self-host too. You won't have to send your history to someone else's computer.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's anything like how they handled the AI sidebar, this option is going to get hidden before it hits production.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be really cool if they didn't do that this time.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Hey, I'm not excited about more stuff getting added into an already overflowing Firefox (why not an extension?!), but if they must promote AI choice, I'm with you: actually allow user choice.

(Based on how Mozilla has added two unrequested search engines while ignoring a request to add StartPage, the "choice" thing seems to boil down to backroom deals.)