Positive news: Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a major privacy and control upgrade: starting with version 148 on February 24, 2026
I have been a user of Firefox for decades now. I trust the browser enough that I use it exclusively on all my devices (PC, phones and tablets). The extensions have been a Godsend for blocking ads on YouTube and Yahoo Mail, and the Facebook container protected my PC from anything coming through the Meta channels.
There has been a lot of speculation about Mozilla falling into the AI snare. At the moment, there are a few tweaks you can use to keep AI out, but with the release coming out later this month, it sounds like Firefox will go full-throttle in providing the ability to block AI content.
Google Gemini AI "helper" on Blogger
I'll be curious - on the Blogger editing window, there is an annoying Google Gemini AI "helper" icon (located at the arrow in the screen shot). I have disabled it; otherwise, it would follow my cursor around the screen offering to insert (crap) into whatever I was typing.
My YouTube video suggestion screen is routinely flooded, equally, with videos about overcoming AI slop, and videos about how "...WONDERFUL Gemini will work for ME!"... if only I would turn the functions back on. Yeah, no. Not going to happen.
I'll keep you folks posted!
Rade
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I certainly don’t need AI in this part of my life and I’m already tired of it constantly being offered to me when I’m online. Time to change settings where I can.
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