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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 11:16:33 JST Rich Felker

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   • Doug Belshaw

   @dajb No, they did not listen.

   The demands were that every antifeature like this should be opt-in for people who want it, not opt-out for people who don't, and that the code/components themselves should be addons you have to actively install so you know they're not doing anything if you didn't install them, not code that's always-present that you just have to trust isn't being turned back on by a glitch that loses your settings (like the "Refresh Firefox" antifeature they recommend when you first open Firefox on a PC that's been powered-off for months at a time).

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     Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 11:16:35 JST Doug Belshaw

     People complain, but then when organisations actually listen they don't share *that* story.

     https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/