• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    Just because if it were opt-in, people wouldn’t have chosen to activate it

    Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever, regardless of what they like or want.

    If you put a button in the settings that did nothing but automatically generate a $5 bill, no one would click that either.

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      Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever

      Most roosters wouldn’t normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!

      You see, that’s exactly what plays favorably for things pushed with “opt-out” mechanisms, anything. If people are less likely to change the settings to better enhance their UX (be it due to a lack of knowledge, a lack of proactive pursuit or because they deem their current settings “good enough”), this means people would be more likely to have the clankers shoved down their throats if said clankers were to be part of default settings.

      In fact, if settings would very likely go unchanged, then Mozilla could push anything, absolutely anything under they will, “shall be the whole of the Law” with the legally-required “opt-out” mechanisms in place.

      In the foreseeable future, we’d have Firefox as a new “Agentic Browser” where a clanker does all the tiring and utterly boring effort of “browsing the web” as the user watches their credit card being depleted by prompt injections carefully placed amidst Unicode exploits across the web by scammers. But, hey, let us not worry, there’s always a button to turn it off! 😄

      • Ulrich@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        Most roosters wouldn’t normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!

        Whoosh. The point is “the roosters” don’t seek anything at all. It could be 50 lbs. of delicious cow shit, but if you don’t put it down in front of them, they’re not going to go looking for it.

        Please read my comments in their entirety before replying.