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  • guywithoutaname@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    11 hours ago

    FYI if you want to edit the Firefox policies directly and save it in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json, this is the file they are using

      "policies": {
    "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
    "DisableTelemetry": true,
    "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
    "FirefoxHome": {
      "SponsoredStories": false,
      "SponsoredTopSites": false,
      "Stories": false
    },
    "GenerativeAI": {
      "Enabled": false
    },
    "SearchEngines": {
      "Remove": [
        "Perplexity"
      ]
    }
  }
}`
    • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
      241·
      7 hours ago

      This shows how unhinged the whole recent hate on Firefox is. Turning off GenAI is literally one single setting AND Mozilla is doing things infinitely better than others (e.g. the translation feature is completely local, and having a chatbot in the sidebar is opt-in)

      • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        That’s because the people who are fine or happy with firefox aren’t the type of people to talk about it, the vocal ones are the people that have complaints

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I have my settings in /etc/firefox and a symlink to distro’s /usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution. Easier to remember.