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.
I have that blue "AI" circle next to the post-editing box too, though mine just says "automatically insert Google search links into your post". I don't even know what that means exactly. It never followed my cursor around, though. That sounds maddening.
It will be very interesting to see what proportion of Firefox users turn off all the "AI" once they can easily do so.
I am loving the Zorin Linux OS that I put on my Windows PC. It works quite well! I am even finding that a lot of the functions with things like managing this blog work a lot better on the OS. And best of all, I am not battling with CoPilot anywhere on the system.
It'll be interesting to know how it recognizes AI-generated content.
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