FYI, Firefox has enabled the "Donate your body to fuel data centers" option to true by default, so if you want to opt-out, make so set this hidden flag to false every browser update.
browser.ml.donateFlesh = false
✨ You always have a choice in Firefox, including whether we use your husk to enhance our AI. More post-mortem controls coming soon.
Oct 15, 2026, 9:26 PMSure, but if they defaulted to false, no one would turn it on so you can see why they have to set it to true.
@catsalad They can take my body over my cold dead ... Ummm
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I personally don't mind the OSS body snatchers and frankly I think you all are overreacting to this.
@catsalad LibreWolf has it off by default, and also you have the option to donate your body to wolves.
After they've removed my brain, and hooked it up to the compute side of the data centre, what else are they going to do with the leftover bits?
@catsalad Posts like this are the silver lining on the dystopia we are living in.
@catsalad Is this a donation before or after I die ?
@catsalad it's soylent green... power.
@catsalad are there settings to donate my flesh to other use cases?
@catsalad set all.the.things to false
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So now I need to keep my pockets full of fireworks...just in case.
@catsalad To be honest, the fact that Mozilla gives control over it instead of shoving it down our throats is a huge thing comparing to other corporations. And they are not sharing any private data to do so. Majority of models, including translations runs locally on your computer instead of sending the translation query to a remote server, so you are not donating anything.
With marketing and AI features, they are looking to be attractive to enterprise and investors as Firefox enters obscurity and AI is the only way in age of corporate AI psychosis. I am yet to see different ideas how to fuel Mozilla's income and reduce dependency on Google money, but all I hear is criticism.
@ilvesluola Sorry, but my body is already reserved as the last meal I give my cat (as nature intended)
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Looked in about:config - not seeing this on v158 here in Australia.
Maybe Aussies bodies contain too much vegemite to be useful.
@catsalad I see ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with this! THANK YOU MOZILLA for giving me a option to turn it off! You are the CHAMPIONS of the open source after all so you can do WHATEVER you want and i think it should be ILLEGAL to critisize this! (Average firefox reddit community post)
@catsalad poor grandma will never figure this out
The Linux kernel with help from the Linux Foundation and their partners like Microsoft, now has AI sockets where a person can connect directly to the Microsoft Borg ☠️
@catsalad ? How?
@lindasgoluppiart To access these hidden settings, just load about:config in your URL bar, or if you're using Firefox mobile try:
chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
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A.I. is people, people!
"Donate your body to fuel data centers"
I hope that means after death? Right?! 😬
