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Has anyone seen the new Firefox ad? Of course you do. The ad did/does the thing as intended: Right in the feels of the Early Adopters of the Internet. I admit, I went, “aaawwww!” when I saw Gary Brolsma (The Numa Numa guy) and Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt). Had they added The Kid President and the whole Soul Pancake team, my life would be complete. I admit, I downloaded Firefox to my phone after watching the ad for nostalgia sake. Firefox was my browser of choice. followed closely by Opera. I then switched to Chrome afterwards, then stuck with Chrome for years until I decided to switch to Vivaldi. I took a quick look at Firefox, and while that, yes, they mentioned that we can choose to use AI or not, I was dismayed to see the option was active by default. The option “Block AI Enhancements” under Settings > AI Controls was inactive, and I had to activate it to, you know, not using AI. Yes, it was just a mere tap (or two) on my screen, but this should be the norm, no, a.k.a.…

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