#AntiFeatures

Andreas ☑️aneth@bonn.social
2025-12-27

Also es tut mir Leid, aber #simplicissimus zeigt hier unfassbar dämliche #antifeatures von #Auto|s, die nicht nur unpraktisch, sondern auch unnötig kompliziert und sogar gefährlich sind.
Das meiste klingt sehr von #BigTech Smartphones inspiriert.
Und ja, wenn man nebenher auf den Verkehr achten muss - äh, sollte - sind "dynamische" Menüs ziemlich s***, haptische und einfache Steuerelemente sind da sehr viel sicherer.

Das dumme Design moderner Autos
youtube.com/watch?v=fH9hRGWgI6Y

2025-12-19
Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web
2025-12-17
Mozilla's new CEO is all-in on AI regardless of what Firefox users want: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050826/
Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #DarkPatterns #AISlop #firefox #mozilla #NoAI
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-11-23

Can someone please #ExplainToMeLikeIm5 WHY THE FUCK DOES A #CHARGER NEED "#Cloud" and "#AI" 'features' or a shitty, non-self adjusting #Clock ???

  • Worse even: This isn't like some fancy "Lab Equipment" to do custom charge voltage and amperage curves or something where said settings may come in handy (Like needing to charge or discharge a custom cell / battery pack design/chemistry), but it's just a giant #GaN #USB #PowerDelivery block, so there is no reason to shove an #LCD (or even #OLED) into that case to begin with!

THIS IS NOT A "BENCHTOP POWER SUPPLY" WITH DIALS AND KNOBS!

#Bloatware #WTF #ProductDesign #HardwareDesign #Commentary #tech #technology #Anker #Prime #AnkerPrime250W #AnkerPrime #AntiFeatures #AntiFeature #Hardware #Charging #USBcharger #USBc #USBpd

A charger advertisinge "OTA Cloud Upgrade Protocol"The same charger advertising "AI Power Mode"The same charger adveritising a useless clock to waste energy on a display it didn't need in the first place, because it's a USB-C PD Charger and not a benchtop power supply!
2025-11-22
Based on the answers to this StackOverflow question and this blog post, here are the 16 (!!!) AI-related settings in new versions of Firefox that you'll want to disable/set to false, and that might be turned back on with each update:

- browser.aiwindow.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
- browser.ml.chat.sidebar
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- sidebar.notification.badge.aichat 

Enter "about:config" in the browser bar and then search for each of these and disable them, turn them off, or set them to false as appropriate.

Depending on which version of Firefox you have you may not have all these configuration options.

Check your smartphone browsers too!

#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web #NoAI #AICruft #antifeatures
2025-09-30

"If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open source app distribution sources as we know them today," said Prud'hommeaux.

theregister.com/2025/09/29/goo

Over the last 12 years, F-Droid has been my only source of Android apps I could confidently trust not to be full of antifeatures. This is a big step backwards.

#FDroid #antifeatures #Android #Google #FOSS

Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-09-21

This is something we should all be pondering: Big tech has most of my email, because it has *all* of yours: mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-h #AntiFeatures #SurveillanceCapitalism

2025-05-25

This is what we call an open-source platform today.

A LICENSE file is not what makes free software. These are just trials and deploybaits.

A screenshot of a platform that claims to be open-source. In reality, the platform is packed with attempts to convince you to buy a license and has many limits on features, with other very important or essential features disables.
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-09

@mike805 @AAKL @joeo10 rather, #Mozilla chose to shove #AntiFeatures at people.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-01-16

@malwarejake +9001%

Same.with any #AntiFeatures and #AmtiPrivacy - #Enshittification!

#ConsentIsEverything apples espechally with #privacy and #data...

It's been a long, slow slide, so it's not always obvious how much #Mozilla has abandoned the primacy of the #user's wants over the companies #spying on and #advertising to us.

But I'm pretty sure we passed a #knee in the curve not long ago. How do I know?

Because now, every time I get a "a new version of #Firefox is available, click to #update" dialog, I shudder in dread, and after applying the update I go through the entire preferences/settings to double-check that they haven't added any more user-hostile #antifeatures garbage (cryptocurrency, blockchain, "#privacy-preserving ad #surveillance", "AI", on and on the garbage they've tried cramming into Firefox).

Users shouldn't dread simple #software updates. At least not open-source users.

But here we are.

#OpenSource #AdWare

edit: corrected typo

Unattributed 👤 ☑Unatributed
2024-08-22

@lgeurts Better yet, get a differernt , like @Waterfox that removes many of these .

2024-07-09

Hey @fdroidorg, how about we replace the "Non-Free Network Services" flag with two more specific Anti-Feature flags; "Non-Changeable Network Services" and "Proprietary Network Services";

forum.f-droid.org/t/propsosal-

#SoftwareFreedom #Android #FDroid #AntiFeatures #NetworkServices

meejahmeejah
2024-06-06

How long until someone is arrested based on planted "Recall" screenshots / "evidence"?

Lots of code out there already to _read_ Recall databases etc, is there any to _write_ to it yet?

2024-06-03
It looks like Microsoft's planned total keylogger might be forced on users of Windows 11 this summer regardless of whether or not they buy a "Copilot+ PC":

https://www.pcgamesn.com/windows-11/ai-app-watermark
The features of AI Explorer sound impressively powerful. Specifically, it’s expected to largely run as a background app, capturing data on everything you do with your PC. It will then allow you to recall and interact with all this data in a natural language manner.

For instance, it might read your emails, your browsing history and your WhatsApp messages then you can use the app to ask for a summation of the emails you received today or what the name of the website you were browsing earlier was.
This is starting to look like a nightmare on a number of levels. Imagine someone who is not you being able to "interact with all this data in a natural language manner".

Opt out, if it is available, is not a comfort. If history is any guide it won't be long before this "AI Explorer" is woven into every part of Windows and the operating system feels crippled without it. You will almost surely be harassed regularly to turn it on. Local processing is not a comfort either. Even if you choose to believe Microsoft on this, which is a risky choice, cyberattackers and ransomware attackers have no limits on what they'll take, not to mention members of your household who do not respect your boundaries or employers with boundary and trust issues.

To me this feels like an unethical and dangerous choice on Microsoft's part.

#AI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #PrivacyNightmare #Microsoft #Recall
2024-03-25

I have compiled a set of filters for #uBlockOrigin for anyone that uses #Bing to hide the annoying "AI"-related antifeatures. Please note the "AI"-generated "stories" can't be fully hidden as they'll cause the page to not fully load and #Firefox to partially lock up. This filter list is copyright-free as it's not a creative work. You can use this on Firefox for #Android if you didn't know it had real adblock.

codeberg.org/DrewNaylor/MyGist

#AI #Microsoft #antifeature #antifeatures #uBlock #adblock

2024-01-30
BuZZ-dEE ☮️ 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇩🇪buzzdee@mstdn.social
2023-11-12
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supportersdsfgs@campaign.openworlds.info
2023-10-26

@hrefna

> Unsafe

The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.

M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.

We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.

Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.

#privacy

Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-10-16

@seldo Nice to see that Microsoft continues to 'push back the frontiers' of #antifeatures with their relentless brand of 'innovation' (indistinguishable from 'enshittification').

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