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Summarizing huge blocks of text is a very useful feature of the LLMs, why are HN users so angry about this?

Probably because it integrates with cloud AI providers, and the kind of person who uses Firefox probably has strong opinions about their browser integrating with a proprietary 3rd-party service and sending personal data to it.

yeah, but it is opt-in. and even if it was defaulted to enabled, firefox already has a "search google for" in the right click menu which also sends selected text to a third party... were people upset with that button?

> yeah, but it is opt-in.

I agree that that helps.

> and even if it was defaulted to enabled, firefox already has a "search google for" in the right click menu which also sends selected text to a third party... were people upset with that button?

Yes, I am absolutely annoyed that Firefox defaults to searching with Google, and much more so that it defaults to sending text from the search+URL bar before executing the search. Though I suppose on the basis that Mozilla does need to fund Firefox development, I would be more willing to give them a tiny bit of slack if Hugging Face or whoever is paying to be the default AI.

I absolutely hate that it comes with search integration by default. Especially that it is in the URL bar instead of a separate text box.

I'm also not a fan of DNS over HTTPs, malware protection, and telemetry. I don't want my web browser sending any extra traffic anywhere I'm not expecting.

How is that a useful feature when you have to read the summary and the text to ensure there wasn't a hallucination. It has net increased how long it takes.

As an opt in add-on with transparent side effects, this would be fantastic

It is opt-in.

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