With the upcoming release of Firefox 148 on February 24, users will enjoy a new control panel in Mozilla for easily managing features such as disabling browser AI.

“Users will find a new section within the desktop settings. The goal of this tool is to offer a centralized location from which to decide whether to live with generative AI or remove its presence from the browser.”

In this way, the company is finally responding to a request from users who prefer a classic browsing experience. This will be achieved through a global switch called “Block AI enhancements.”

Activating this feature not only disables current functions but also stops the browser from displaying pop-ups or reminders suggesting the use of future tools based on this technology. If the user does not want a complete block, the browser will allow for individualized management.

Features that can be enabled or disabled independently include automatic translations, alternative text generation for PDF accessibility, and smart tab grouping. Control over link previews, which summarize the content before clicking, is also included.

Furthermore, the new control panel will integrate chatbots into the sidebar. Users will have the option to choose whether they want direct access to models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot, or if they prefer to keep the interface clean. These settings will be remembered after updates and can already be tested in the Firefox Nightly version.

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Mozilla has joined social networks with an instance in the Mastodon fediverse, which it launched this Thursday as a private beta, with which they do not intend to be neutral but to create a space for dialogue in which everyone can participate.

Mozilla.social is the social network that the browser debuted at Mastodon, as part of the fediverso that it promotes, which “moves the power away from big technology companies and puts it in the hands of diverse voices to build a social platform that meets the needs of people, not the needs of shareholders.

As of this week, it is available as a private beta with a waiting list, because Mozilla has proposed this project as “a long-term investment” with which they believe they can “contribute to improving Mastodon and social networks in general” as they explain in the official blog.

The social network will have moderation. It will not be a neutral platform, as Mozilla warns, since they consider that the expression neutrality is frequently used “as an excuse to allow behavior and content designed to harass and harm people from communities that have always faced harassment and violence.”

Instead, moderation will be based on the values embodied in the Mozilla Manifesto, which include human dignity, inclusion, safety, individual expression, and collaboration. There will be rules that will govern the way in which all users will interact on the social network, and for this reason they already anticipate that whoever does not agree is “completely free to go elsewhere.”

They also warn that they don’t think the moderation rules are “perfect on day one,” and even admit that they may never be. But they assure that they are working to “create a way to have a dialogue with the community.“

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Cookies are the mechanism used by the web pages that the user visits when surfing the net. They collect data on your preferences in themes and purchases and then send you similar suggestions. There is a possibility that they will disappear in 2023, so companies such as Mozilla or Apple are already making forecasts.

These digital files, which can be sent by the domain itself or by providers outside the page where you are browsing, are very important for advertising, as they ensure future visits to the same site. However, suspicions of trafficking in users’ personal data have sparked controversy at different times.

Faced with the possibility that in 2023 cookies will be definitively deleted by Google Chrome, different companies have begun to take measures. Apple, to cite an example, in the most recent iOS update, allows the customer to make the decision about “whether or not the applications that are installed can collect data for advertising purposes.”

So far, there is no definitive information on the elimination of cookies, nor on alternatives to the advertising market. However, it has been revealed that the process could occur in two stages. In the first, which would have to be applied at the end of 2022, a period (about nine months) would be opened to developers, publishers and the advertising sector to migrate their services. In the second stage, scheduled for the end of 2023, Chrome would begin the gradual elimination of third-party cookies over a period of three months.

In the midst of this process, issues such as user privacy remain pending, whether there will be alternatives to cookies whose elimination could take place definitively at the end of next year, and third-party advertising.

For now, there is talk of a themes API. That is, the way of advertising and attracting clients would be adapted by means of a tool that selects the topics that the Internet user usually resorts frequently. Those themes would be stored for three weeks, before being deleted.

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The Firefox browser has introduced network and cache partitions to the network, a feature aimed at protecting users from connection-based tracking, capable of disabling supercookies.

The partitions represent a “fundamental change” in the network architecture of the browser, and allow to isolate the network connections and cache with the webs, normally used to load shared elements more quickly, since in this way tracking is prevented of users, even through supercookies.

As explained from Mozilla, crawlers can abuse caches to create supercookies, which replace normal cookies to store user identifiers, but are more difficult to delete and block.

The changes introduced in Firefox 85 are focused on reducing the presence of supercookies through the network and cache partitions, since they “make them useless for monitoring between sites”, Mozilla points out on its official blog.

Firefox 85 also introduces pooled connection partitions, prefetch, speculative, and TLS session identifiers, to protect users from connection-based tracking.

Source: dpa

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