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You think that identifying dark patterns that are literally designed by psychologists to be as addictive as possible is moral panic?

Play-by-appointment is the gateway to all the other anti features, and not being about to focus on studying because you're worried about your dailies shouldn't be something 12 year olds (or anyone, really) are exposed to

hammering Wikipedia’s servers and using it as a training ground.

They could just efficiently download the freely available archive instead of being assholes but nooo

And this is why the "online advertising ecosystem" should not be allowed to exist

If amnezia is sus they probably added mullvad to lend credibility to the overall statement

If you don't want to discuss something just don't respond lol

I'm out. There is no point taking with someone that repeatedly lies to try to support their point. Look, I'm against the majority of LLM usage and implementation as well, and I'd rather most of it not be in firefox as well, but:

1. You keep making up things firefox does that it doesn't. I'm not even convinced you've used it
2. You keep talking about UX and dark patterns but you're obviously making it to as you go
3. Basing conversation on obvious falsehoods is a waste of time

It looks like this page has links, you can summarize them using a clanker” on a frequent basis.

That doesn't happen. I don't recall firefox ever popping up a modal while I'm browsing.

And the fact that the confirmation feels “menacing” and defaulted to cancelling the opting-off (i.e. pressing “esc” or clicking outside the window; one must click the primary-colored “block” button which, contrasted to a grayish “Cancel” button, may psychologically induce the user into thinking “block” is a dangerous action), quite similar to the about:config warning screen.

I don't think it's menacing at all. It gives an informative list of features, which is nice to know. I could see a lot of people wanting to turn off all AI then realizing they actually want local translate instead of sending everything to google.

And you've got the button intents mixed up. Primary color is always the encouraged action in that kind of design. Dark pattern would be if the colors were flipped.

Other than link previews all the features they are opt-in in the sense you'd have to actually use the feature.

1. Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
2. Smart tab groups which i don't think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
3. Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don't want to accidentally do it (edit: see correction in reply)
4. A sidebar chatbot integration which you'd have to use on purpose
5. Someone said perplexity in search engine options which you'd have to do on purpose