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It is well-known as a result of the expert reports in US v Google that generally software users do not change defaults

Whereas providing an option or a setting that the user must locate and change doesn't really mean much. Few users will ever see it let alone decide to change it

For example, why pay 22 billion to be "the default" if users can just change the default setting



Mozilla is certainly paddling upstream. Of all of the AI-integrated apps and sites that I'm subjected to, I can think of exactly two where it wasn't obnoxious and a pain in the neck to disable.

Kagi. Zed. That's it, that's the list.


Apple's Preview is my favourite. It uses AI to allow you to copy text from images. And that's it.


This is my go to example of “ai features that are actually useful to me”. Ubiquitous OCR, and ubiquitous semantic search in photos.

Not a chat bot. Not an “ask ai” button, just those things.


That's not "AI" in the sense of LLMs, which is what the recent trend in AI complaints is about.


> Kagi

I've been toying with that for ages on and off. Finally now a paid up user due to the fact that their guesswork engine (or makey-upy machine, or your preferred name) can be easily turned off, and stays off until requested otherwise.




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