switching.software
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
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Firefox@fedia.io•This is how to disable the new “AI” chatbot in [#Firefox](https://fedia.io/tag/Firefox):
1·2 years agoWe recommend #IronFox as a cleaned up Firefox fork for Android. It supports about:config, too.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPtoPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•We would like to endorse what [@kuketzblog](https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog) writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
1·2 years agoAt this moment, our website is online. It is served by Codeberg Pages. As you can see on Codeberg’s status page, this service has been offline occasionally:
As far as we have heard, reasons include mindless “AI” crawlers, DDoS attacks and growing pains.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPto
Firefox@fedia.io•This is how to disable the new “AI” chatbot in [#Firefox](https://fedia.io/tag/Firefox):
4·2 years ago@Vincent@feddit.nl Disabled in the sidebar or in
about:config?According to our tests, vanilla Firefox has
browser.ml.chat.enabled = trueby default.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPto
Firefox@fedia.io•This is how to disable the new “AI” chatbot in [#Firefox](https://fedia.io/tag/Firefox):
4·2 years ago@30p87@feddit.org Murica?
Mozilla introduced the chatbot option in Firefox 133:
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPtoPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•We would like to endorse what [@kuketzblog](https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog) writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
1·2 years ago@realSiegfried@troet.cafe This thread is about WhatsApp.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPtoPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•We would like to endorse what [@kuketzblog](https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog) writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
1·2 years ago@realSiegfried@troet.cafe
Switzerland is not a bonus for EU citizens as its data protection standards are lower than the EU’s.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPtoPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•We would like to endorse what [@kuketzblog](https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog) writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
1·2 years ago@realSiegfried@troet.cafe
Right. Threema was not yet fully open source when we last updated this list. Will do soon.
switching.software ( switchingsoftware@fedifreu.de ) OPtoPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•We would like to endorse what [@kuketzblog](https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog) writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
1·2 years agoHere are some good alternatives to WhatsApp:

@markhburton @stephenhomewood
IronFox’ readme does a poor job explaining how to install this app via F-Droid. IronFox is not yet part of F-Droid’s own package repository. So you have to add IronFox’s F-Droid repo before you can install IronFox.
Opening this link in F-Droid allows you to add their repo:
https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=c5e291b5a571f9c8cd9a9799c2c94e02ec9703948893f2ca756d67b94204f904