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462 ‘Someone is actually reading the room’: Firefox just got an AI kill switch, and I hope other developers will follow its lead

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TechRadar · 02/04/2026 19:45 EDT

‘Someone is actually reading the room’: Firefox just got an AI kill switch, and I hope other developers will follow its lead

Firefox is adding an AI kill switch that lets users disable the AI features in its web browser.

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